Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Cançelik is a faculty member at Kocaeli University, Faculty of Theology, Department of Islamic History and Arts, where he teaches Ottoman Turkish and Islamic Turkish Literature. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD at Istanbul University in the field of Turkish Language and Literature. His doctoral dissertation examined sixteenth-century Ottoman divan poetry as a historical source.

His academic research focuses on classical Turkish literature, Sufi and mystical poetry, the relationship between divan poetry and music, urban and civilizational thought, and Ottoman intellectual and cultural history. He has published extensively on Sufi poets such as Niyâzî-i Mısrî, Nâbî, Yunus Emre, Nesîmî, and Şeyh Gâlib, with particular attention to mystical aesthetics, cosmology, and symbolism in poetry. He has served as principal investigator and advisor in numerous national and international research projects, including studies on manuscript collections, lyric anthologies, and textual analysis.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cançelik’s work adopts an interdisciplinary approach that brings together literature, mysticism, and intellectual history, and he continues to contribute to comparative studies on the mystical and cosmological dimensions of classical poetic traditions.

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Born in Van in 1973. Completed all his education in Van. After graduating from Van Faculty of Theology, he worked as a Religious Culture and Ethics and Vocational Courses Teacher in Religious High Schools under the Ministry of National Education. He has been working as a Faculty Member since 2019. He is married and has three children.