General Information

Institutional Information: Faculty Of Theology, Department Of Islamic History And Arts, Department Of Turkish Islamic Literature
WoS Research Areas: Arts & Humanities (Ahci), Arts & Humanities, Religion, Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literary Reviews, Linguistics, Language & Linguistics
Avesis Research Areas: Social Sciences and Humanities, Theology, History of İslam and Arts, Turkish-İslamic Literature, Philology, Turkish Language and Literature, Old Turkish Literature
Metrics

Publication

60

Citation (Scopus)

18

H-Index (Scopus)

3

Citation (TrDizin)

266

H-Index (TrDizin)

8

Citation (Sum Other)

598

Project

4

Thesis Advisory

5

Open Access

4
Biography

Mehmet Şahin was born in Adana in 1975. Following his primary and secondary education, he graduated from Kozan Imam Hatip High School in 1994. In 1999, he completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University, Faculty of Theology; In 2006, he received his master's degree at the same university with his thesis titled ‘Mustafa Fevzi b. Numan: His Life, Works and Poems Related to Religious Literature’. In 2016, he completed his doctoral study on ‘Prose Yûsuf u Züleyhâ Stories in Old Turkish Literature and Muhammed b. İbrahim's Yûsuf u Züleyhâ’ at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.

Between 2004-2005, he worked as an administrator in Ankara Sincan District Governorate, and between 2006-2016, he worked as an archive specialist in the Directorate of Library and Archive Services of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM). During this period, he took an active role in the Independence Courts Project and worked on inventory, classification, digitisation, indexing and translation of Ottoman texts. As a result of these studies, he contributed to the publication of works such as Independence Courts, Istanbul Independence Court, Elcezire Independence Court, Isparta Independence Court, Eskişehir Independence Court, Eastern Independence Court (5 volumes) and Second Term Ankara Independence Court (3 volumes). In addition, in 2010, he took part in the publication of the work titled TBMM Album 1920-2010 (4 volumes).

Since 2016, Şahin has been working as a lecturer at Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology and continues his studies in the field of Turkish-Islamic Literature. He served as the Head of the Department of Islamic History and Vice Dean between 2017-2018 and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Islamic History and Arts.

Şahin is the editor of the internationally indexed journals Turkish Academic Research Review, Tanım Tenkit Teori and Literary Studies and coordinates the International Multidisciplinary Congresses of Turkish Academic Research Review.

Şahin, who has also served in various public commissions, speaks English, Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish. He is married and has three children.

 

CONTACT US

email

mehmetsahin@akdeniz.edu.tr

 

Other email

drmentesli@gmail.com

 

Cell Phone

+90 533 056 9174

 

Work Phone

+90 0242 310 6888 Extension: 3401

 

Office

Akdeniz University, Faculty of Theology

 

Mail Address

Akdeniz University Faculty of Theology Dumlupınar Bulvarı, 07058 Konyaaltı, Antalya-Turkey

Contact
Email
mehmetsahin@akdeniz.edu.tr
Web Page
https://sahinmehmet.com/
Address
Akdeniz Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi (Kampüs) Konyaaltı/Antalya