Person

Çoruh, Hakan

Hakan Ҫoruh holds his Bachelor of Divinity (Ilahiyat) degree from the Faculty of Divinity, Sakarya University. In 2007, he completed his Master’s degree in Qur'anic exegesis (tafsīr) at the same university. Between 2003 and 2008, he took advantage of academic circles and centres such as İSAM (Centre for Islamic Studies) in Istanbul, one of the major cities for Islamic studies in the Muslim World. He then completed his PhD at Australian Catholic University in 2015. His PhD research is on early modern exegesis of the Qur’an (Said Nursi, Muhammad ‘Abduh, and Sir Ahmad Khan). Hakan is currently a lecturer, and supervisor of HDR students at CISAC, CSU. Hakan's main field is Qur'anic exegesis (tafsīr). He teaches and writes on Qur'anic studies, classical exegesis, and contemporary approaches to the Qur'an and Islam. He is interested in the classical and modern Qur'an exegesis, contemporary Islamic thought, Islamic Legal Theories (usul al-fiqh) and Jurisprudence (fiqh), Islamic theology, and interfaith relations.