PhD Students

Student information

Ahmet Yılmaz

BA: Islamic and Religious Studies, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University
MA: Religious Studies/Sociology of Religion, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Religion, Islam, Secularization, Modernization, Subjectivity.

Akbar Mohammadi Kahrizeh

BA: Law, Payam E Noor University (Iran)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Ethics, Media, Nationalism, Mobility, Identity, Secularism, Iran.

Ayşe Doruk

BA: Sociology, Anadolu University
MA: Sociology, Maltepe University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Sociology of Childhood and Youth

Beyzagül Öztürk

BA: Theology, Marmara University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Family, Gender, Migration, Intimacy, Care.

Çiğdem Yaramışlı

BA: Sociology, Abant İzzet Baysal University
MA: Sociology, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Migration, Environmental Sociology, Social Change, Discrimination, Gender

Dima Faress

BA: English Literature, University of Aleppo, Syria
MA: Translation and Arabization / University of Aleppo & Sociology / Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: TBA
Email Address: [email protected]
Research Interest: Sociology of aging and migration, Family, Religion, Displacement, Inequality, Syria.

Faozah Morad Uyan

BA: Journalism, Istanbul University
MA: General Journalism, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Conflict and Trauma, Environmental Journalism, Media, Family, Philippines.

Havva Betül Koçali

BA: Psychology, Istanbul Şehir University
MA: Psychology, Doğuş University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Merve Reyhan Ceylan
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Family, Marriage and Divorce, Emotion, Space, Gender, Social Psychology.

Hibatuallah Bensaid

BA: BSc Psychology, Queen Effat University (Saudi Arabia)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Moral Economies, Social Transformation, Governance, Algeria.

Hilal İslam

BA: Sociology, Üsküdar University
MA: Sociology, Hacettepe University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Methodology, Religion, Emotion, Gender, Sociology of Work.

Ilham Ibrahim

BA: Nursing (BScN), University of Ottawa (Canada)
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Sociology of Secularism and Religion, Anthropology of Islam, State Ethnography, Somalia

Imren Turner

BA: Turkish Language and Literature, Çukurova University
MA: Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Research Interest: Political Anthropology, Southeast Asia, Islam, State Violence, Communalism, Decolonization, Bangladesh.

Meyreme Oğuz Kantekin

BA: Sociology, Abant İzzet Baysal University
MA: Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries, Marmara University
Supervisor: TBA (English Prep-School)
Email Address: [email protected]
Research Interest: Ahiska Turks, Identity, Migration, Sociology of the Body.

Mohammad Moosa Khan

BA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India)
MA: Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia (India) & Philosophy, Indira Gandhi National Open University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email Address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Violence, Trauma, Ethnographic Vulnerability, Occupation, Resistance, Nationalism, Social Movements, Kashmir, India.

Obaidur Rahman Naufal

BA: History, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
MA:  Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (India)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad
Email Adsress [email protected]
Research Interest: Islamic Movements, State, Modernity and Postmodernity, Power and Knowledge, Political Violence, India.

Sakib Abdullah Ibne Ataur

BA: Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
MA: Special Education, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) & Educational Administration, Gazi University
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramazan Aras
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, Migration, Education, Epistemic Justice, Knowledge, Pedagogy, Islam, Global South, Bangladesh.

Sara Ghalayini

BA: Medical Laboratory Technology, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
MA: Islamic Studies, Beirut Islamic University & Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Muslim Communities, Youth, Religion, Knowledge.

Shaimaa Asami

BA: BSc in Food Technology, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
MA: MSc in Development and Rural Innovation, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Everyday Practices, Inequality, Food Security, Conflict, Identity, Resilience, Gender, Family, Syria, Netherland.

Şeydanur Abuaisha

BA: Psychology, Istanbul Gelisim University
MA: Psychosocial Oncology and Education, Istanbul University
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Merve Reyhan Ceylan
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: Health, Gender, Family, Migration, Inequality, Social Policy, Psychosocial Studies.

Thuraya Abdulateef Abdulrahman Al-naseri

BA: Sociology, Altınbaş University
MA: Sociology, Ibn Haldun University
Supervisor: Assist.Prof. Tesnim Khriji
Email Address: [email protected]
Research Interest: Law, Social Movements, Institutional Sociology, Iraq.

Wakeel Ahmed

BA: BS Social Sciences (Major: Sociology), Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology University (Pakistan)
MA: MA Contemporary Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar)
Supervisor: TBA
Email address: [email protected]
Research Interests: South Asia, Islamic Studies, Post-Coloniality, Tasawwuf, Education and Pedagogy, Pakistan