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Abdussamet Aydın

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: abdussamet.aydin@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Urban Sociology

Abuthahir Kattikunnan

BA: Arabic Literature, University of Calicut
Supervisor: TBA
Email Adress: abuthahir.kattikunna@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Manuscript Cultures, Hagiography, Intellectual History and Sociology of the Late Modern Muslim World

Afaf Naimi

BA: Sociology, Bursa Uludağ University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Adress: afaf.naimi@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of Emotions, Islamic Thought, Philosophy of Politics

Akbar Mohammadi Kahrizeh

BA: Law, Payam E Noor University
MA: Management, Mahabad Azad University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: akbar.mohammadi@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Ethics , Media , Nationalism , Social Movements , Social Identity , Secularism

Ayesha Fayyaz

BA: Mass Communication, Forman Christian College
MA: Education Policy and Development, University of Punjab
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: ayesha.fayyaz@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Gender and Family Studies, Modernity and Post-modernity, Globalization and its effects on youth, Migration and Diaspora

Ayla Bayraktar

BAİslamic Studies, Yarmouk University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Addressaya.altinawi@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research InterestsMigration, Syria, War, Immigration

Betül Uzun

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Nursem Keskin Aksay
Email Addressbetul.uzun@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research InterestsGender Studies, Place, Migration, Immigration, Syria

Besra Betül Topkaya

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: betul.topkaya@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research InterestsGender Studies, Space, Migration, Immigration, Syria

Beyzagül Öztürk

BA: Theology, Marmara University
Supervisor: Prof. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: beyzagul.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Religiosity

Beyza Okul

BA: Islamic and Religious Studies, Istanbul 29 Mayıs University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: beyza.okul@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Minority Groups, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Gender, New Age Movements

Bushra Feroza Turk

BA: Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Cape Town
MA: Education, University of Cape Town
Email Address: bushra.turk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Diane Marie Pranzo
Research Interests: History, Politics, Discrimination, Post-colonial Studies and Islamic Solutions to Societal Problems

Dhilruba Kallepadath Ibrahim

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: dhilruba.ibrahim@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Urban Anthropology, Decolonial studies, Indigenous Knowledge and Epistemologies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Intersectionality.

Dima Faress

BA: English Language and Literature, Aleppo University
MA: English Language and Literature, Aleppo University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Adress: dima.faress@ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Cultural Identity, Syria

Enes Malik Aktaş

BA: Theology, Marmara University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: enes.aktas@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: City and Civilization, Urban Sociology, Ethnography of Space and Place, Sociology of Religion

Ertuğrul Gazi Çelik

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: ertugrul.celik@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Bilingual immigrants and community-family relationship dynamics; role of bilingual Turkish immigrants living in Germany within the German society and family.

Evin Öztürk

BA: Sociology, Abant İzzet Baysal University
Supervisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: evin.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Memory, Migration and Diaspora, Addiction

Fatma Zehra Hamarat

BA: Theology, Marmara University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address:
zehra.hamarat@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Gender, Masculinity, Family, Social Change

Ghena Rahman

BA: Art and Design, Albanian University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Address: ghena.rahman@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Emotion, Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Migration, Social Memory

Halima Bensaid

BA: Psychology, Effat University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: halima.bensaid@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Transnationalism, Religious Identity, Philosophy of Society, Online and Surreal Places

Heba S. A. Attaallah

BA: General Dentistry, University of Palestine
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: heba.attaallah@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Media, Decolonization Studies, Social Psychology, Behavioral Sociology, Post-modernity Phenomena, Ethics, and Islamic Public

Hibatuallah Bensaid

BA: Psychology, Effat University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: hibatuallah.bensaid@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Youth, Social Media, Identity

Ilham Ibrahim

BA: Nursing, University of Ottawa
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: ilhan.ibrahim@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Historical Sociology, Sociology of religion, Ethnography of the state, Formations of Identity and Memory, Secularism, Postcolonialism

Ismail Ahmed Abdelmoneim Arafa

BA: Pharmacy, Alexandria University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: ismail.arafa@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Social Movement, Islam, Middle East, Egypt

Karam Alhafian

BA: Accounting, Misr University for Science & Technology
MA: Islamic Studies, University of Tripoli
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: karam.alhafian@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Social Movement, Syria, Islamic Movement, Middle East

Lassana Donzo

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Diane Marie Pranzo
Email Address: lassana.donzo@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Muslim Societies, Liberia, African Studies

Mazen Alagawany

BA: Islamic Jurisprudence, International Islamic University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: mazen.alagawany@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Decoloniality, Intersectionality, Sociocultural formations of Modern Arab Thought, 19th and 20th century Egypt, Ideology and social movements.

Meryem Demirel

BA: Theology, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Address: meryem.demirel@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Gender in Religious Communities

Muhammad Al Mousa Al Maksour

BA: Architecture and Urban Planning, Aleppo University
MA: Architecture and Urban Planning, Lund University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: muhammad.maksour@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Urban sociology

Muhammad Bilal Bin Jamal

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: bilal.binjamal@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Power, Nation-state, Agency, Caste, Morality, Everyday Muslim life

Muhammed Shameel Mohamed Nizar

BA: Animation and Visual Effects, Multimedia University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: shameel.nizar@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Postcolonialism, Decolonisation, Imperialism, Anti-capitalism, Oral History, Media and Documentary Film

Nesma Ahmed B Elsayed

BA: Sociology, Wayne State University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: nesma.elsayed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Media, Identity, Mixed Methods Research

Nisa Nur Kurt

BA: Sociology, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: nisa.kurt@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, Culture, Sociology of Emotions, Post-Structuralism, History of Philosophy

Nour Alian

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: nour.alian@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Anthropology of Islam, Islamic Identity, Migration, Refugee Studies, Qualitative Methods 

Nurefşan Çelenk Hamdan

BA: Mathematics, Galatasaray University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Addressnurefsen.celenk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sense of belonging, migration, urban ethnography, digital ethnography, computational social sciences.

Nüseybe Karagöz

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Addressnuseybe.karagoz@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Religion/religiosity, gender, masculinity, space/place, migration, secularism, and modernity. 

Ömer Faruk Akman

BA: Linguistics, Boğazici University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: omer.akman@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics,Kurdish and Arabic societies and languages

Pınar Şen

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Nursem Keskin Aksay
Email Address: pinar.sen@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Gender, Myth and Nationalism, Border, Cultural Psychology, Political Anthropology and Sociology

Rahma Waleed Elsayed Mohamed

BA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: rahma.waleed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Political sociology, sociology of state, anthropology of state, social movements, nationalism, secularism, modernity, historical sociology.

Ruba Baabdullah

MA: London School of Economics and Political Science
BA: Science and Humanities, Effat University
Supervisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: ruba.baabdullah@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Anthropology of religion, Global Islam and Muslim diaspora communities, Statelessness and Displacement, Digital ethnography, Conspiracies and alternative realities

Sara Lefsay

Lisans: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Address: sara.lefsay@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Modernity, Anthropology, Islamic Thought, Social Philosophy, Historical Sociology.

Sarah Alamri

Lisans: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Address: sarah.alamri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of education, Islamization of knowledge.

Serra Deniz

BA: Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Nursem Keskin Aksay
Email Address: serra.deniz@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Political sociology, urban sociology, neoliberalism, space and place

Sümeyra Çelik

BA: Theology, Ankara University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khrigi
Email Address: sumeyra.celik@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Migration, Gender

Şeyda Nur Çakır

BA: Sociology, Mimar Sinan University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: seyda.cakir@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Gender, Sociology of Religion

Thuraya Abdulateef Abdulrahman Al-Naserı

BA: Sociology, Altınbaş University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: thuraya.alnaseri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Institutional Sociology, Law, Social Movements, Education, Social Theory

Wayej Kuruni

BA: Islamic Studies, University of Dhaka
MA: Islamic Studies, University of Dhaka
Email Address: wayej.kuruni@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Research Interests: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Secularism, Sociology of Conflict, Sociology of Change, De-Islamisation of Public Space, De-Islamisation of Muslim Majority countries, Secualirsation of Education, Islamophobia in Muslim majority country, Student Politics and Campus Violence, Secular Bengali Spirit.

Yusufu Tusun

BA: Sociology, Selçuk University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: yusufu.tusun@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Culture,social change,migration, colonialism, political sociology