Dr. Güney graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Selçuk University in 2003. He began his academic career as a research assistant in Islamic Law at the same faculty in 2005. In 2006, he completed his Master's thesis in Islamic Law, and in 2013, he finished his doctoral dissertation on Islamic law of obligations. While pursuing his PhD, he also graduated from Anadolu University with a degree in Economics through the Open Education program.

Dr. Güney has served as a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York for one year in 2009 and at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRT) in Jeddah for two months in 2018. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 and to full Professor in 2025. He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Islamic Law at Necmettin Erbakan University and also teaches as a visiting faculty member in the Department of Islamic Economics and Finance at KTO Karatay University.
 

Brief Profile of DrChachi

Dr. Abdelkader Chachi has been an Assistant Professor of Islamic Economics and Finance at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University since 2017.
He previously worked as a researcher and senior training specialist at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI now the Islamic Development Bank Institute, IsDBI) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 2009 to 2017.
Prior to this, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Islamic Economics Research (CRIE. now the Institute of Islamic Economics, IEI) and as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah from 2003 to 2009.
He previously worked as the co-ordinator of the Islamic Economics Unit at the Islamic Foundation-UK from 1990 to 2003 and as a lecturer at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education from 2000 to 2003.
He holds a Master's and PhD in Banking and Finance from Bangor University, North Wales, UK, an Advanced Diploma in Economic Development from Manchester University, UK, and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and Finance from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, University of Algiers, Algeria.
He has contributed to several research papers and articles in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed academic journals and has participated in training courses in various countries around the world, in Arabic, English, and French.
He has also taught several courses (syllabuses) in Arabic and English to undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students.