Mehmet Bilal Yamak completed his bachelor’s degree in foreign languages at the Department of English Language at Marmara University Ataturk Faculty of Education and received his MA at the Department of Basic Islamic Sciences in Istanbul University with the thesis titled “Sufi Elements in Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani’s Work Titled ‘al-Ghunya li-Talibi Tariq al-Haqq”. He earned his PhD with the thesis titled “Sufi Views of Yazicizade Brothers and Their Influence on the Ottoman Thought” at the same department. He is currently a faculty member at Kirklareli University, Faculty of Theology.