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Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy

BA: Political Science and Public Administration, Hacettepe University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: abdirashid.kalmoy@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Social Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Knowledge, Phenomenology, Sufism, Comparative Spirituality, Somali Studies, Borders, Civil Wars and Insurgency, Sociology of Literature & Music, Kenya, Somalia.

Akbar Mohammadi Kahrizeh

BA: Law, Payam E Noor University (Iran)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: akbar.mohammadi@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Ethics , Media , Nationalism , Social Movements , Social Identity , Secularism, Iran.

Ayesha Syed

BA: Social Science, Kinnaird College for Women University (Pakistan)
MA:  Philosophy, University of the Punjab (Pakistan)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: ayesha.syed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Political Sociology, Gender Power Dynamics, Modernity and Postmodernity, Governance and Social Policy, Sociology of Media, Decolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Islamic Movements, Pakistan

Betül Tozlu

BA: Sociology, Marmara University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: betul.tozlu@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Anthropology of Emotions, Space and Place, Media Studies, Digitalisation and Virtual Spaces, Religion and Non-religion

Bilal Salaam

BAEnglish, Morgan State University (USA)
MA: Historiography, Rutgers University; Pedagogy, Rutgers University (USA)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email: bilal.salaam@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research InterestSociology of Islam, Historical Anthropology, USA.

Ensar Kül

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: ensar.kul@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Linguistic Anthropology, Modernism, Kurdish Studies, Postcolonialism, Nationalism and Identity, Comparative Literature.

Faozah Morad Uyan

BA: Journalism, Istanbul University
MA: General Journalism, Istanbul University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: faozah.uyan@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Narratives on conflict and trauma, Environmental Journalism, Impacts of Media Representations on Societies, Family and Relationships, Philippines.

Hatice Sıla Öztürk

BA: Sociology, Istanbul Şehir University
MA: Sociology, Boğaziçi University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: sila.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Gender Sociology, Sexuality, Anthropology of Emotions

Havva Betül Koçali

BA: Psychology, Istanbul Şehir University
MA: Psychology, Doğuş University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: betul.kocali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Marriage and Divorce, Anthropology of Emotion, Sociology of Space, Gender, Social Psychology

Hilal İslam

BA: Sociology, Üsküdar University
MA: Sociology, Hacettepe University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: hilal.islam@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Methodology, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology of Emotions, Gender, Sociology of Work

Hüseyin Dağ

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: huseyin.dag@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Sociology of Religion, Identity, Religious Conversion, Political Sociology

Hüsna Zülfikar

BA: Sociology, Boğaziçi University
MA: Sociology, Istanbul Şehir University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: husna.zulfikar@ibnhaldun.edu.tr
Research Interest: Microsociology, Cultural Anthropology, Phenomenology, Narrative Analysis, Everyday Life  Sociology, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Religious Ceremonies.

Imren Turner

BA: Turkish Language and Literature, Çukurova University
MA: Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: imren.turner@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Sociology of Medicine, Anthropology of Islam

Mahmudul Hasan Naeem

BA: Journalism, Ege University
MA: Civilization Studies/Anthropology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Asdress: hasan.naeem@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Political Anthropology, South Asia, Islam, State Violence, Communalism, Decolonization, Bangladesh.

Melahat Göktaş

BA: Anthropology, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University
Supervisor: Prof. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: melahat.goktas@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Modernization, Postmodern theory, Comparative Literature, Kurdish Literature, Postcolonialism, Kurdish Studies, Gender, Anthropology of the State, Natioanlism

Meyreme Oğuz Kantekin

BA: Sociology, Abant İzzet Baysal University
MA: Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries, Marmara University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: meyreme.oguzkantekin@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Ahıska Turks, Identity, Identity Construction, Migration, Sociology of the Body

Merve Reyhan Ekinci

BA: Theology, Harran University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: reyhan.ekinci@ibnhaldun.edu.tr
Research Interest: Immigration, Anti-immigration, Xenophobia, Othering, Ethnic Diversity and Culture, Identity, Welfare State, Border, Qualitative Research Methods, Political Sociology, Social Psychology

Mohammad Moosa Khan

BA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India)
MA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India) & Philosophy, Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: mohammadmoosa.khan@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Political violence, trauma and ethnographic vulnerability, Anthropology of occupation and resistance, Postcoloniality and ethnic nationalism, Political solidarity and transnational social movements,Kashmir, India.

Muhammad Yusoph Ramos

BA: Medical Technology, Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College (Philippines)
MA: Civilization Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: yusoph.ramos@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Medical Sociology ,Pandemic, Diseases, Sociology of Security, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Philippines.

Mushtaq Ahmad Wani

BA: Mass Communication, Kashmir University (India)
MA: Politics and International Relations, Pondicherry University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: mushtaqahmad.wani@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Research Interest: Sociology and Anthropology of Islam, Anthropology of Emotions, Space and Place, Politics of Passport, Sociological Theory, Alternative Epistemology, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Islamization of Knowledge, Kashmir, India.

Nesibe Demir

BA: Faculty of Education, Necmettin Erbakan University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: nesibedemir@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest:Religion (Islam), Political Sociology, Anthropology of Emotions, Nationalism, Women’s Studies, Youth Studies, Ethnography of Space and Place

Neveen Fathi Aboueldahab

BA: International Business Administration, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: neveen.aboueldahab@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Muslim identity, Westernization, sociology of religion, sociology of education, and decolonization, Egypt.

Obaidur Rahman Naufal

BA: History, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA:  Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Adsress obaidur.naufal@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Islam and Islamic Movements, Anthropology of the State, Sociology of Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity, Power and Knowledge, Political Violence, India.

Osama Şeyhali

BA:  Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA: Modern Turkey Studies, Marmara University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: osama.seyhali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Civil society, Social movements, Peacebuilding, Kurdish Issue in Syria.

Pınar Şen Zengin

BA: Anthropology & Kurdish Language and Literature, Mardin Artuklu University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University & Gender Studies, University of Angers (France)
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: pinar.sen@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Kurdish Studies, Postcolonialism, Kurdish Women Studies,Nationalism and women, Body Politcs, Gender and War, Nationalism and Myth.

Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri

BA: Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: saiyid.jafri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Secularism, Oral History, Sufism, Discrimination, Caste System, Sociology of Religion, India

Sakib Abdullah Ibne Ataur

BA: Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
MA: Special Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) & Educational Administration, Gazi University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: s.ibneataur@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interests: Decolonialism and Neocolonialism, Migration and Refugee Studies, Inclusive Education and Institutional Marginality, Epistemic Justice and Knowledge Politics, Critical Pedagogy, Islamic Thought and Lived Religion, Global South.

Saleh Ibrahim

BA: Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University
MA: Political Science and İnternational Relations, İstanbul University
Supervisor:Prof. Irfan Ahmad
Email Address: saleh.ibrahim@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest:Research Interest:Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Middle East and North Africa Studies, Social Movements, Military Politics, Religion, Islamic Political Thought, Authoritarianism, International Relations, Egypt.

Sevde Öztürk

BA: Theology, Istanbul University
MA: Religious Studies, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Alev Erkilet
Email Address:sevde.ozturk@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest:Cultural Sociology, East Asian Studies, Korean Studies, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Media

Tasneem Sultan Hamid Ali

BA: English Language and Literature, Taiz University (Yemen)
MA: Radio, TV and Cinema, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Arzu Ünal
Email Address: tasneem.ali@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Language, Literature, Sociolinguistics, Yemen.

Thuraya Abdulateef Abdulrahman Al-naseri

BA: Sociology, Altınbaş University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist.Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: thuraya.alnaseri@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: State and Non-state Legal Systems, Legal Consciousness, Social Movements, Institutional Sociology, Iraq

Yunus Kılıç

BA: History, Boğaziçi University
MA: History, Kırklareli University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: yunus.kilic@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest: Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Conspiracy Theories

Zulkarnain Mohammed

BA: Political Science, University of Ghana
MA: Political Science and International Relations, Ibn Haldun University 
Supervisor:Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email Address: zulkarnain.mohammed@stu.ihu.edu.tr
Research Interest:Sociology of Conflict, Social Theory, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Ghana.