Özgeçmiş: Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kıran 2000 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi Uluslararası
İlişkiler Anabilim Dalında doktorasını tamamladıktan sonra 2004-2005 yıllarında Beykent
Üniversitesinde Part -Time Öğretim görevlisi olarak çalıştı. 2006-2009 yılları arasında Kıbrıs’ta, Girne
Amerikan Üniversitesinde, Uluslararası İlişkiler Ana Bilim Dalında öğretim üyesi oldu ve 2008- 2009
eğitim- öğretim yılında aynı Üniversite’de Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Anabilim Dalı Başkanlığını
yürüttü. 2010 yılında Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak
çalışmaya başladı ve 2011 yılında Uluslararası İlişkiler alanında doçent oldu. Aynı yılın yaz döneminde
ABD’de, Georgetown Üniversitesinde araştırmacı öğretim üyesi olarak bulundu. 2016 yılında profesör
olan Abdullah Kıran, 2018-2021 arasında İİBF Dekanlığını yürüttü.  2024 Ekim- 2025 Ekim döneminde,  ABD'de, University of North Carolina Greensboro'da, TÜBİTAK Burslusu olarak bulundu ve aynı üniversitenin,  Department of Peace and Conflic Studies'te,  Ortadoğu üzerine, Yüksek Lisans Programında dersler verdi. Halen Muş Alparslan
Üniversitesinde, İİBF, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Ana Bilim akademisyen olarak hizmet eden
Abdullah Kıran’ın 50'nin  üzerinde yayınlanmış akademik makalesi bulunmaktadır. Yazarın basılmış
kitapları şunlardır: Ortadoğu’da Su (Kitapyayınevi,2005), Sosyal Bilimler Sözlüğü (Nûbihar 2014),
Yeni Bir Ortadoğu ve Kürtler (Nas Yayınları, 2016), Ortadoğu’da Kürtler ve Türkler (Nas Yayınları,
2019), Tarihin Efendileri (Nas Yayınları, 2019), İşletme, Ekonomi ve Siyaset Bağlamında Yönetim
(Ekin Yayınları, Doç. Zeliha Tekin ile ortak Editörlük), Malazgirt ve Kürtler (Peywend Yayınları, 2023), Kürtler ve Yeni Tarz-ı Siyaset (Peywend Yayınları, 2024).
 

Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Department of Finance, Durham University Business School; the Director of the Durham Centre for Islamic Economics and Finance, and the programme director for the MSc Islamic Finance programme.

Mehmet’s teaching, research, publications, and research supervision focus on Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management, Islamic social welfare institutions, and Middle Eastern political economies. 

His articles on his research interests have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance. 

Mehmet has served as a consultant to COMCEC (a part of the OIC), CIBAFI, and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, and he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Participation Bank from 2018 to 2020. He was the Honorary Treasurer of BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) and its journal British Journal of Middle East Studies from 2009 to 2019.

Mehmet is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. He is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.

Mehmet is the 2024 Laureate of IsDB (Islamic Development Bank) Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for recognition of his novel work on Islamic moral economy and the articulation of Islamic finance to be supportive of sustainable development and the welfare of human beings.

Durham University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=e6ZHO-cAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: mehmet.asutay@durham.ac.uk

He was born in 1968 in Gümüşhane. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law (1992). He became a research assistant at Atatürk University Erzincan Faculty of Law (1993). He received his master's degree from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Public Law Programme with the thesis titled ‘Two Dimensions of the Contemporary State: Emancipation and Privatisation’ at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences Public Law Programme (1994) and completed his master's degree with the thesis titled “Political Participation in Turkey within the Framework of the 1982 Constitution” (1998). In 2004, he became an associate professor and in 2009 he became a professor. He focused his studies on State Theory and Human Rights. He published books titled Feodaliteden Küreselleşmeye Ekonomik İktidar Siyasal İktidar İlişkisi (Seçkin Yayınları, 2003) and Sanayi Devriminden Küreselleşmeye Sosyal Haklar (Oniki Levha Yayınları, 2009). Globalisation and Turkey: The Development of the State in Turkey (Seçkin Y., 2007) and General Public Law (M. Akad/B. Dinçkol, Der Y., 2011). He has articles published in various journals. In 2011, he joined Istanbul Şehir University Faculty of Law.