Mehmet Akif Aydın
Institut für Islamwissenschaft
Workgroup of Prof. Mauder
Researcher
ERASMUS coordinator
Office hours
Consultation hours:
Wednesdays 16:00-17:00.
Please book an appointment online and briefly state the topic to be discussed.
- Since October 2024 doctoral researcher in the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
- 2024 Research Assistant by Avicenna e.V. in the International Scholarship Program
- 2021 - 2024 University of Osnabrück Islamic Theology (M.A.)
- 2019 - 2020 Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Bülent Uçar (translation work from Arabic and Turkish into German)
- 2017 - 2021 University of Osnabrück Islamic Theology (B.A.)
- Islamic history of ideas
- Rational theology (ʿilm al-kalām)
- Sufism (taṣawwuf)
- Philosophy (falsafa)
- Epistemological debates; the conflict between reason (ʿaql) and mystic knowledge (kašf)
- Western and Islamic philosophy in comparison
- “Possibility of metaphysical knowledge on the basis of reason - A critical analysis of the concepts of al-Ġazālīs and Immanuel Kant”; awarded as part of the “BestMasters” of Springer Verlag. (publication coming soon)
- “Critique of rational theology (ʿilm al-kalām) in the thought of al-Ġazālī”, as part of a conference of the IIT Osnabrück ‘Best Theses in Islamic Theology’. (publication coming soon)
