Boydak is a faculty member at the Department of Turkish Islamic Arts History at the Faculty of Theology at Selçuk University.

1983 yılında Sakarya’da doğan Fatih ÖZKAN, ilk ve orta öğrenimini, doğduğu köydeki Erdoğdu İlköğretim Okulu’nda, lise öğrenimini, Akyazı İmam-Hatip Lisesi’nde bitirdi. Lisans öğrenimini ise, 2005’te, Atatürk Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi’nde tamamladı. 2007’de Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı’na bağlı imam-hatip olarak atandı. 2008’de Sakarya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Anabilim Dalı Din Eğitimi Bilim Dalı’nda yüksek lisans öğrenimine başladı. 2009’da Dicle Üniversitesi’ne Araştırma Görevlisi olarak atandı. 2011'de "Çocuğun Din Eğitiminde Anne-Babanın Etkisi: Diyarbakır Örneği" adlı çalışmasıyla Sakarya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü'nde yüksek lisansını tamamladı. 2019'da "Türkiye’de İlahiyat Fakültelerinde Eğitim Gören Uluslararası Öğrencilerin Memnuniyet Düzeyleri" adlı çalışmasıyla doktora öğrenimini tamamladı ve 2022'de Dicle Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi'ne Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak atandı. Halen Dicle Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi'nde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak görevine devam etmektedir.

Prof. Dr. Dualı was born in 1979 in Samarkand, one of the ancient cities of Uzbekistan. He comes from a family of Ahıska (Meskhetian) Turks. His family, the Dualıs, were among the 92,000 Ahıska Turks who were exiled by order of Soviet leader Stalin in 1944.

After completing his primary education in Uzbekistan, Dualı migrated with his family to Azerbaijan in 1989, where he continued his secondary and high school education. In 2000, he was admitted to the Faculty of Theology at Baku State University and successfully graduated in 2005.

He pursued his postgraduate studies in Turkey and began his master's education in 2006 at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at Istanbul University. In 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Şimasi Gündüz, he earned his Ph.D. degree with his dissertation titled “The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Socio-Political Structure of 20th Century Russia.”

In the same year, he started his academic career as a faculty member at the Faculty of Theology of Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, where he served until the end of 2022. As of 2023, he continues his academic duties at the Faculty of Theology of Sivas Cumhuriyet University.

Prof. Dr. Dualı, known for his academic contributions, has published two books and over forty scholarly articles. He is married and a father of three, and continues his research and studies primarily in the fields of the History of Religions and Philosophy.