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.