Assoc. Prof. Yunus Kaplan

Biography

He was born in 1980 in Bitlis Tatvan. He graduated from Ceyhan Anatolian High School in 1998 and graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Theology in 2003. Between 2003-2004, he was in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, for Arabic education. In 2006, he completed his master's degree with the thesis titled "The Mu'tazila of Khorasan and Ebu'l-Qasim al-Ka'bî" in the Department of Islamic Sects of the Social Sciences Institute of Marmara University. In 2013, he received his doctorate from Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy with his thesis titled "Justice in Ottoman Political Thought 1550-1650". He started his academic career at Mardin Artuklu University in 2011. In 2014, he started to work as a lecturer at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Theology, Department of Islamic Philosophy. In 2017-2018, he was a Visiting Researcher at the US Georgetown University with a TÜBİTAK Scholarship. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2022. He is still working as a lecturer in Van YYU Faculty of Theology, Department of Islamic Philosophy. His fields of study include Islamic Political Thought, Moral Philosophy, Ottoman Thought, and Contemporary Islamic Thought.