Assoc. Prof. HARUN ŞAHİN

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Harun ŞAHİN

E-mail: harunsahin@aybu.edu.tr

Mr. ŞAHİN graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Theology in 1990.

He worked as a civil servant and teacher between 1990 and 1993.

ŞAHİN began his academic career in 1990 by earning a master's degree in Tafsir (Exegesis) from the Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences. Nearing completion of his master's thesis in 1993, he passed the YLS International Exam administered by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) and was sent to the United States in 1994 to pursue his master's and doctoral degrees.

In 1996, he earned his master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin with his thesis titled "Verb + Preposition Idioms in the Surat al-Yusuf in the Qur'an." He began his doctoral studies at the same university in 1996 and completed his dissertation, "A Textual Analysis of the Concepts Laid Down in the First Verses of Quranic Revelation: Language and Meaning" (2001), in 2001.

After returning from abroad, he worked as a faculty member in the Division of Tafsir (Exegesis) in the Department of Fundamental Islamic Sciences at Harran University's Faculty of Theology from 2001 to 2013.

He currently serves as a faculty member in the Division of Tafsir at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University's Faculty of Theology, a position he began in 2013.

His books, "Textual Analysis of Concepts Revealed in the First Verses of the Quran: Language and Meaning" (2018) and "Realistic Moral Construction of the Qur’an" (2018), have been published.

Mr. ŞAHİN is good at English (C-1) and good at Arabic (C-1). He has published books, book chapters, articles, and papers on the Quran, Tafsir, Semantics, Orientalism, Quranic Studies in the West, Scientific Tafsir, Jihad, Ethics, and the Relationship between Ethics and Nature.

 He has also conducted academic research and teaching (Erasmus Teaching) activities in his field both domestically and internationally (in the United States, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Palestine, and Uzbekistan).