Adnan Aslan (born 1963) is a Turkish Islamic scholar.

Biography

Aslan was born in

Kayseri Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large Industrialisation, industrialised List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is comp ...

in central Turkey in 1963 and received his education in both Turkey and

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. He completed his BA in

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from

Erciyes University Erciyes University ( tr, Erciyes Üniversitesi) is a Turkish institute of higher education located in Kayseri, Turkey. As of 4 April 2019, a total of 64,194 students were studying for their bachelor's degree and postgraduate studies. Background ...

in Turkey and received his MA in history and philosophy of religion from

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

in 1990. He earned his PhD in philosophy of religion from

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

in England in 1995. Aslan worked at a number of universities in Turkey. He has served as the dean of faculty of humanities and social sciences at Süleyman Sah University in Istanbul. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the department of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame du Lac and a faculty associate at

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of South Bend.

Works

* ''Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr''Reviews of ''Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr'': * * * Şentürk, Recep (1998). Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies, 2: 251-254 * * * Pucelik, T M. Choice; Middletown Vol. 36, Iss. 9, (May 1999): 1633. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 62, No. 2 (1999), pp. 347-348 * Reviews in Religion and Theology, Volume 6, Number 2, May 1999, pp. 137-214(78) *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aslan, Adnan Turkish academics 1963 births Erciyes University alumni Alumni of King's College London 21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam Living people University of Notre Dame faculty Muslim scholars of Islamic studies