Hatice Dilek GÜLDÜTUNA, Ph.D

She graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology at the Koşuyolu Research Hospital. She spent three years at the Professor Fuat Sezgin’s Arab-Islamic History of Science Institute in Frankfurt to complete her Arabic education. Between 2005 and 2011, she first received her master’s degree at the Department of Islamic and Religious Sciences in Johann Wolfgang Goethe University with her thesis titled “Buchstabensymbolik bei Ibn Arabi” (Letter Symbolism in Ibn Arabi) and then her PhD at the Department of Islamic Studies on “Konstruktionen des weiblichen bei Ken'ân Rifâî: Das weibliche als Spiegel der göttlichen Wirklichkeit” (Women as a Miracle of Truth). She is currently giving lectures on Sufism at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Her main areas of interest are symbolism in general, symbolism in Ibn Arabi, the role of woman in Islamic mysticism and femininity and symbolism as symbols, the role of Islamic culture in the history of thought and science, and the effects in the West.