Emine YENİTERZİ, Ph.D,

Emine Yeniterzi completed her secondary education in 1977 at Konya Anatolian High School. She graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Selçuk University, in 1981. She received her master’s degree in Classical Turkish Literature in 1983 with her thesis titled “The Names and Attributes of the Prophet in Divan Poetry (Asmā-i Nabī)” and completed her PhD in 1989 with a dissertation on “Na‘t in Divan Poetry.”

She pursued her academic career at Selçuk University between 1981 and 2011, and later at Istanbul Medeniyet University from 2011 to 2015. Since 2015, she has been working at the Institute for Sufi Studies at Üsküdar University.

Her primary research areas include Classical Turkish poetry, textual commentary, religious-ethical-Sufi masnavis, poetic religious genres, and the works of Mavlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. She has authored numerous books, published articles in scholarly journals, and presented papers at national and international academic conferences.