Reşat ÖNGÖREN, Ph.D, Prof.

Professor Reşat Öngören was born in 1963 in Ünye. He graduated from Marmara University Department of Theology. He earned his master’s degree in the same university in the field of History of Tasawwuf in 1990, and he received his PhD in 1996. He worked as a researcher, specifically on the field of Tasawwuf, between 1996 to 2000 in the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation for Islamic Studies (ISAM). He was assigned as Assistant Professor to Istanbul University Department of Theology. He was promoted to an Associate Professor position in November 2001 and a Professor in November 2007. He worked as a guest lecturer in Higher Islamic Institute in Sofia, during 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 academic calenders. Among many academic and encyclopedia articles, papers, and book chapters he wrote on Tasawwuf, Öngören also has written books named Tasawwuf in Ottomans: Sufis, State and Scholars in Anatolia (printed in 2000, 2003, 2012, 2016), Zayniyyah: A Sufi Order in the History (printed in 2003), and A Popular Tariqa Among Scholars: Zayniyyah (printed in 2012). He also wrote articles for the 44+2 volume Encyclopedia of Islam (DIA) published by ISAM and the encyclopedia of Mevsūatu a‘lāmi’l-ulemāi ve’l-udebāi’l-‘Arabi ve’l-müslimīn published in Tunisia. He is still working as a lecturer at the Institute of Sufi Studies in Uskudar University, where he was appointed in June 17th, 2019.

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