Journal of Sakarya University Faculty of Theology

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi (2008) King's College London, MA in Religious Education (2011) University of Oxford, DPhil in Education (2018)

Religious Education

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül METE SAKARYA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF THEOLOGY

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Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi mezunu. Erasmus Programı çerçevesinde Hollanda Radboud University Nijmegen’da öğrenim gördü.

Yüksek lisansını Tâceddin b. Zekeriyyâ el-Osmânî el-Hindî ve Âdâbü’l-meşîha ve’l-mürîdîn Eserinin Tahkik ve Tahlili başlıklı teziyle Sakarya Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı.

2011-2013 yılları arasında Konya Selçuk Üniversitesi Mevlâna Araştırmaları Enstitüsü’nde Araştırma Görevlisi olarak görev yaptı.

Marmara Üniversitesi’nde başladığı doktora eğitimine görev nedeniyle Sakarya Üniversitesi’nde devam etti ve 2019 yılında “XVIII. Asır İstanbul Mevlevîliği” başlıklı teziyle doktor unvanı aldı.

Doktora tahsili boyunca Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi’nde Araştırma Görevlisi, TDV İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi’nde (İSAM) ise AYP Araştırmacısı olarak ihtisas çalışmalarına devam etti.

2024-2025 Akademik yılında Qatar University, College of Arts & Sciences, Center of Arabic for Non-Native Speakers’da Arapça dil eğitimi aldı.

Halihazırda Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Tasavvuf Anabilim Dalı Öğretim Üyesidir. Araştırmalarını Erken Dönem Tasavvuf Düşüncesi, Âdâb Literatürü, Osmanlı Dönemi Tasavvuf Tarihi; Mevlâna ve Mevlevîlik üzerine yoğunlaştırmıştır.

Religion, Society and Culture Studies, Sufism, Islamic Studies (Other), Ottoman history, Intellectual History of Ottoman, Ottoman Culture and Art

Res. Assist. Halil İbrahim YILMAZ SAKARYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTESİ

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He graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University in 2014. In 2018, he completed his master’s degree in the Department of Islamic History and Arts at Faculty of Theology, Sakarya University, with a thesis titled “The conquests of the territory of al-Shām (Greater Syria) (634-640 AD) according to Al-Balādhurī (D. 279/892-93).” He currently serves as a research assistant at the same university, continues his doctoral studies, and plans to complete his dissertation in 2025. His research interests focus on early Islamic conquests, weapon culture, military organization, and Islamic historiography.

Selected Publications:

SSCI Q1 – Yılmaz, Halil İbrahim et al. “Studying Early Islam in the Third Millennium: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11/1 (2024): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04058-2
AHCI – Şenel, Samet, and Halil İbrahim Yılmaz. “Tayādhūq (Theodocus/Théodoros) and his role in the formation of Islamic medicine.” Journal of Medical Biography 31.4 (2023): 217–220. https://doi.org/10.1177/09677720211052509

History of Islam, Political and Civilization History of Islam, Archeology of Islam

Res. Assist. Üsame BALIKÇI Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Din Psikolojisi

Psychology of Religion

Aim & Scope

The journal is an international refereed journal published twice a year, in June and December, by Sakarya University Faculty of Theology. Journal of Sakarya University Faculty of Theology, an academic journal, aims to contribute to the accumulation of knowledge in the field of theology and social sciences by publishing studies with scientific qualifications at national and international level. The publication language of the journal is Turkish. Arabic and English scientific studies are also published. Articles submitted to the journal are subjected to double-blind anonymous refereeing. In addition, in order to prevent plagiarism, all submissions are subjected to plagiarism scanning with the website, www.intihal.net program.

Our journal attracts the attention of many researchers with a wide range of publications in the field of theology and social sciences and allows them to publish their works.

The scope of our journal includes all fields of research related to religion in general. While research articles on Judaism, Christianity, Eastern religions and modern beliefs are also published in our journal, Islam studies are predominant. As long as it is related to the concept of religion, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, language, culture, politics, Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies are also included in our journal.

Author Guidelines

1. When preparing work for submission, TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi (DIA) writing-spelling rules must be followed.

2. SAUIFD accepts only the works whose footnotes and bibliography are prepared according to ISNAD Citation Style (Second Edition- with footnote).

3. The author should add Turkish and English titles, abstracts, and keywords before the main text in each article. The Turkish abstract should be between 150-200 words and written in 7 points Verdana. The English abstract should be between 750-1000 words and written in 7 points Verdana. In addition, each article should contain 5-6 keywords.

4. The articles that are sent to the Journal should not exceed 9000 words including footnotes and bibliography. As for books and symposium reviews, 2500 words should not be exceeded. Authors should add a Turkish and English abstract of 75-100 words and keywords of 3 words in book reviews.

5. The works should be submitted in A4 size format in MS Word program. The page size, font, line, and paragraph spacing should be the following:

· Top: 5.4 cm; Left: 4.5 cm; Bottom: 5,4 cm; Right: 4.5 cm.

· Font: Palatino Linotype (Main text: 10; footnote: 8 points).

· Line spacing: Exactly, Value: 14 nk; Paragraph spacing: before: 0 nk; After: 3 nk.

· Traditional Arabic fonts should be used in Arabic texts.

6. If there are tables, graphics, and pictures in the article, the objects' size should not exceed 12 cm of width.

7. The bibliography should be organized alphabetically by the surname of authors.

8. The footnotes should be under the page and arranged according to the sequential number system.

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Authors

It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the submitted article is of a quality that contributes to the academic field.

The works must be original and based on research.

Although the plagiarism scan will be carried out by SAUIFD, authors are responsible for the academic consequences of plagiarism.

The articles should not be sent to different journals at the same time.

Authors should not resubmit the same papers previously rejected in our journal. In such a case, the papers will be rejected.

It should be made sure that other individuals, shown as co-authors, have contributed to the research. It is contrary to scientific ethics to add some who are not academic contributors to the article as co-authors or to put in order co-authors with non-academic criteria such as title, age, and gender regardless of the order of contribution.

It is assumed that authors who submit articles to the journal read and accept the publishing and writing principles of the journal, and the writers are deemed to have committed themselves to these principles.

Citations and bibliography should be complete and realistic.

The authors should take into account the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive specified by the Higher Education Council.

Referees

Referees should act with the awareness that they are the most basic determinant of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate it with a view to increasing academic quality.

Referees should only accept the articles that they have the expertise necessary to make an appropriate appraisal. Also, they should only accept the articles that they can adhere to the double-blind peer-review secrecy and they should keep the details of the article in every way confidential.

Any information about the article examined in the review process should not be shared with anyone in any way.

Referees should only evaluate the correctness of the content of the articles and the appropriateness of the academic criteria. The opinions put forth in the article by authors may differ from those of the referees. The differences should not affect the evaluation.

Referee reports should be objective and moderate. Defamatory, derogatory, and accusatory statements must be avoided.

Referees should avoid superficial and ambiguous expressions in evaluation reports. For the evaluations that resulted negatively, the missing points and imperfections of the article must be shown clearly and concretely.

Referees must evaluate the articles within the time frame granted to them. If they do not evaluate the article, they must notify the journal within a reasonable time.

Editorial Board

Editors should accept the articles that may contribute to the relevant areas expressed in the scope of the Journal to the evaluation process.

Editors should not be in any conflict of interest with the accepted or rejected articles nor take advantage of them.

Editors have all the responsibility and authority to accept or reject a submission.

It is the responsibility of editors to keep the names of referees and authors confidential.

Editors should make the necessary effort to ensure that the articles submitted for publication will be scanned to prevent plagiarism, which is academic dishonesty.

It is the responsibility of editors to complete the review, refereeing, editing, and publishing processes of the submitted articles in a timely and healthy manner.

Editors should give priority to academic concerns and criteria when accepting articles to the journal.

P.S: The ethical rules mentioned above have been prepared according to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE ( https://publicationethics.org/ )).

Price Policy

• Journal of Sakarya University Faculty of Theology (SAUIFD) does not request any fees for article submission, reviewing and editing processes, page-layout and publication (page or color fees).
• SAUIFD does not pay any fees to authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members.
• All papers on SAUIFD are free to read and download.
• SAUIFD sign on to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which promotes free access to research literature, and has adopted the Open Access Principles that clarified in this initiative.
• All papers on SAUIFD are archived with LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system through TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM DergiPark.
• SAUIFD does not accept announcements, advertisements, sponsorships, etc. due to its publication policy.
• SAUIFD is an open-access journal that does not request any subscription fees.
• We do not offer a reprint service for those requiring professional-quality reproductions of papers.
* All expenses of the SAUIFD are covered by Sakarya University.