Ph.D, Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Culture Department

Prof. Tahirhan AYDIN, PhD
Born in 1977 in Hizan, Bitlis, Prof. Dr. Tahirhan Aydın completed his primary and secondary education in Hizan and graduated from Bitlis Imam Hatip High School in 1994. He earned his undergraduate degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Divinity in 1999. In the same year, he began his Master’s studies in the Department of Exegesis (Tafsir) at the same faculty. In 2003, he started his career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Arabic Language and Rhetoric at Ankara University.

Between 2003 and 2005, he completed his first Master’s degree at Gazi University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Arabic Language Education, with a thesis titled "Multiple Intelligence Theory and Teaching Arabic to Foreigners." He subsequently earned his PhD from the same department (2005–2007) with his doctoral dissertation titled "Sentence Structure in Arabic and Turkish, Teaching Arabic Sentence Structure to Foreigners: A Contrastive Analysis." From 2007 to 2009, he taught Arabic language courses at Ankara University, Faculty of Divinity.

From 2009 to 2011, he spent 1.5 years as a Visiting Scholar at Cairo University, Egypt, conducting research in the field of Arabic language. During this period, he also lectured for one semester at Al-Azhar University. Returning to Ankara University in 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Mardin Artuklu University, Faculty of Letters in 2012. He achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 2014. Between 2017 and 2019, he served as a Visiting Researcher at Indiana University (USA), Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), where he conducted research and delivered lectures on foreign language pedagogy.

He returned to Mardin Artuklu University in 2019 and was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature in 2020. In 2023, he joined the Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dicle University, Faculty of Letters. In 2025, he was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Bitlis Eren University.

Between 2015 and 2024, within the framework of the Erasmus+ Exchange Program, he delivered lectures, conferences, and seminars at Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of Rouen (France), Al-Zaytoonah University (Jordan), and various institutions in Sweden.

Prof. AYDIN has held numerous academic and administrative positions, including:

Vice Director of the Institute

Erasmus Coordinator

Head of Department and Head of Division

Member of the University Senate

Member of the Faculty Executive Board and Faculty Board

Member of the Scientific Research Projects (BAP) Commission

Fields of Interest and Research: Native language instruction, foreign language pedagogy, Arabic language teaching, Arabic language and literature, contemporary issues of the Arabic language, language pedagogy, contrastive linguistics, linguistics, comparative linguistics, language teaching material development, and Quranic studies.

Prof. AYDIN is proficient in Turkish, Arabic, and English. He has authored numerous articles, symposium papers, and books in these languages.

Faculty member at Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Literature department. 

Prof.Dr., Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Literature Department

My name is Karwan. I am a Kurd from Kurdistan Region of Iraq. I studied general history at the College of Education at Duhok University. I earned an M.Phil. Master's degree in West Asian Studies (Politics and International Relations ), at The Malaysian and International studies institution), at the National University of Malaysia. Currently, I hold a Ph.D. on the U.S. policy towards the Kurdish Question in Iran , also as a Lecturer at University of Zakho, at College of Human Sciences , in the Department of History as well as a head of the History Department- Morning& Evening Studies. I was a coordinator of history department morning studies and the Bologna Process System at the Faculty of Human Sciences.
I interested in the Kurdish studies, the U.S foreign policy of the Middle East and Iraq also Iran and Turkish history.

Ortaöğretimini Bingöl Lisesinde yaptı. Atatürk Üniversitesinde lisans, İnönü Üniversitesinde yüksek lisans öğrenimini yaptıktan sonra Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Eğitim Yönetimi ve Politikası Bölümünde “Özneleşme Sürecinde Okul ve Bilgi ile İlişki-Kürt Politik Aktörlerinin Eğitimsel Deneyimleri” başlıklı tez ile doktorasını tamamladı. Tezi Okul ve Öteki Yurttaşlar adı ile kitap olarak yayınlandı. Halen Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimlerinde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır (2023). Eğitim çalışmalarının yanında aynı zamanda bir dil ve kültür çalışanıdır. 

Prof. Tahirhan AYDIN, PhD
Born in 1977 in Hizan, Bitlis, Prof. Dr. Tahirhan Aydın completed his primary and secondary education in Hizan and graduated from Bitlis Imam Hatip High School in 1994. He earned his undergraduate degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Divinity in 1999. In the same year, he began his Master’s studies in the Department of Exegesis (Tafsir) at the same faculty. In 2003, he started his career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Arabic Language and Rhetoric at Ankara University.

Between 2003 and 2005, he completed his first Master’s degree at Gazi University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Arabic Language Education, with a thesis titled "Multiple Intelligence Theory and Teaching Arabic to Foreigners." He subsequently earned his PhD from the same department (2005–2007) with his doctoral dissertation titled "Sentence Structure in Arabic and Turkish, Teaching Arabic Sentence Structure to Foreigners: A Contrastive Analysis." From 2007 to 2009, he taught Arabic language courses at Ankara University, Faculty of Divinity.

From 2009 to 2011, he spent 1.5 years as a Visiting Scholar at Cairo University, Egypt, conducting research in the field of Arabic language. During this period, he also lectured for one semester at Al-Azhar University. Returning to Ankara University in 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Mardin Artuklu University, Faculty of Letters in 2012. He achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 2014. Between 2017 and 2019, he served as a Visiting Researcher at Indiana University (USA), Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), where he conducted research and delivered lectures on foreign language pedagogy.

He returned to Mardin Artuklu University in 2019 and was promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature in 2020. In 2023, he joined the Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dicle University, Faculty of Letters. In 2025, he was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Bitlis Eren University.

Between 2015 and 2024, within the framework of the Erasmus+ Exchange Program, he delivered lectures, conferences, and seminars at Jagiellonian University (Poland), University of Rouen (France), Al-Zaytoonah University (Jordan), and various institutions in Sweden.

Prof. AYDIN has held numerous academic and administrative positions, including:

Vice Director of the Institute

Erasmus Coordinator

Head of Department and Head of Division

Member of the University Senate

Member of the Faculty Executive Board and Faculty Board

Member of the Scientific Research Projects (BAP) Commission

Fields of Interest and Research: Native language instruction, foreign language pedagogy, Arabic language teaching, Arabic language and literature, contemporary issues of the Arabic language, language pedagogy, contrastive linguistics, linguistics, comparative linguistics, language teaching material development, and Quranic studies.

Prof. AYDIN is proficient in Turkish, Arabic, and English. He has authored numerous articles, symposium papers, and books in these languages.

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Ortaöğretimini Bingöl Lisesinde yaptı. Atatürk Üniversitesinde lisans, İnönü Üniversitesinde yüksek lisans öğrenimini yaptıktan sonra Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Eğitim Yönetimi ve Politikası Bölümünde “Özneleşme Sürecinde Okul ve Bilgi ile İlişki-Kürt Politik Aktörlerinin Eğitimsel Deneyimleri” başlıklı tez ile doktorasını tamamladı. Tezi Okul ve Öteki Yurttaşlar adı ile kitap olarak yayınlandı. Halen Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimlerinde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır (2023). Eğitim çalışmalarının yanında aynı zamanda bir dil ve kültür çalışanıdır. 

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Ph.D, Mardin Artuklu University Kurdish Language and Culture Department

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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. Halen Muş Alparslan
Üniversitesinde, İİBF, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Ana Bilim akademisyen olarak hizmet eden
Abdullah Kıran’ın 40’ün 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).

Prof. Dr., Mardin Artuklu University, Kurdish Language and Literature Department

CV Martin van Bruinessen
Martin van Bruinessen is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Studies of Modern Muslim Societies at Utrecht University. He is an anthropologist with a strong interest in politics, history and philology, and much of his work straddles the boundaries between these disciplines. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kurdistan (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria) as well as Indonesia and Southeast Asia generally and has taught on subjects ranging from Ottoman history and sociology of religion to theories of nationalism. He carried out his first field research among the Kurds during two years in the mid-1970s when access was relatively easy and has frequently revisited the region during the following decades and has published extensively on various aspects of Kurdish society, culture and history. His work was translated into Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Kurdish and is easily available in the countries concerned. The vicissitudes of the academic job market brought him to Indonesia in the 1980s, where he studied various aspects of Islam and society. His involvement with Indonesia began with fieldwork in a poor urban kampung in Bandung (1983-84) and included stints as an advisor on research methods at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI, 1986-90) and as a senior lecturer at the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta (1991- 94). After his return to the Netherlands, van Bruinessen took part in founding the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in 1998 and was one of its professors during 1999 through 2008. Since his formal retirement in 2011, he held visiting professorships in Indonesia and Singapore as well as Turkey.
His publications include Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan (London, 1992); Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir (with H. Boeschoten, Leiden, 1988), Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah di Indonesia (Bandung, 1992), NU: Tradisi, Relasi-relasi Kuasa, Pencarian Wacana Baru (Yogyakarta, 1994), Mullas, Sufis and heretics: the role of religion in Kurdish society (Istanbul, 2000), Kurdish ethno-nationalism versus nation-building states (Istanbul, 2000), the edited volumes Islam und Politik in der Türkei (with J. Blaschke, Berlin, 1985), Islam des Kurdes (with Joyce Blau, Paris, 1998), Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam (with Julia D. Howell, London, 2007), The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages (with Farish A. Noor and Yoginder Sikand, Amsterdam, 2008), Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (with M. Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore, Edinburgh, 2009), Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe (with Stefano Allievi, Oxon, 2011), Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Understanding the ‘Conservative Turn’ (Singapore, 2013), and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice (with Michiel Leezenberg and Anne-Marie Korte, New York, 2022).
Most of his numerous published articles can be accessed at his academia.edu page, https://universiteitutrecht.academia.edu/MartinvanBruinessen.
Van Bruinessen can be contacted at: m.vanbruinessen@uu.nl.

 
Employment history
2011-present: professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
1998-2011: professor of Comparative Studies of Contemporary Muslim Societies, with special reference to Kurdish Studies, Utrecht University
1999-2009: chair of comparative studies of contemporary Muslim societies, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM)
1996-1997: guest professor of Kurdish Studies, Department of Anthropology, Free University, Berlin
1994-1998: lecturer Turkish and Kurdish studies, Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Utrecht University
1991-1994: senior lecturer religious studies and research methods, State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1986-1990: consultant for research methods, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta
1982-1986: postdoctoral research fellow, Royal Institute of Anthropology and Linguistics (KITLV), Leiden
1978-1982: various short-term appointments, including teaching Turkish at Utrecht University, participation in rural development project in Afghanistan, journalistic reporting on the Iranian revolution.
1974-1977: PhD fellowship, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
1971-1973: teacher of mathematics and physics
Visiting academic positions
2018-2019 (12 months) visiting research professor, Middle East Institute, National University Singapore
2016-2017 (7 months) senior visiting fellow, Rajaratnam School of International and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2015-2016 (1 semester) visiting professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul.
2014 (1 summer course) visiting professor, Center for Religious & Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta.
2014 (1 semester) visiting professor, Istanbul Bilgi Univesity, Istanbul.
2012-2013 (1 year) senior visiting fellow, ARI-NUS, Singapore
2011-2012 (1 semester) visiting professor, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London.
2009 (3 months) visiting fellow, RSIS-NTU, Singapore.
2001 (3 months) visiting fellow, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
1997-2000 (part-time) visiting professor, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris
Education
Studied two disciplines:
1964-71: mathematics and physics, Utrecht University
1967: “candidaats” degree (equivalent to B.Sc.) in mathematics, physics and astronomy (cum laude)
1971: “doctoraal” degree (equivalent to M.Sc.) in theoretical physics and mathematics (cum laude)
1966-71: cultural anthropology, Utrecht University
1970: “candidaats” degree in anthropology Utrecht University
1978: Ph.D. degree, cultural anthropology, Utrecht University

Prof. Dr.

Michiel Leezenberg, 1995 yılında Amsterdam Üniversitesi'nden doktorasını aldı. Şu anda Amsterdam Üniversitesi'nin felsefe ve antik çalışmalar bölümlerinde ders veriyor. Kürt tarihi, toplumu ve kültürü ve İslam dünyasının ve Osmanlı imparatorluğunun entelektüel tarihi üzerine çok sayıda yayın yaptı. INALCO/Sorbonne (Paris) ve Jagiellonian Üniversitesi'nin (Krakow) İran Çalışmaları bölümlerinde ve Leiden ve Gent Üniversitelerinin felsefe bölümlerinde misafir profesörlük yaptı.