M. Emin Gulecyuz

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

M. Emin Gulecyuz is a scholar of Islamic religious thought, with a focus on multiple strands of metaphysical thought and their approaches to questions of God, being, knowledge, and the cosmos. His research centers on proto-Ottoman and Ottoman Anatolia, as well as surrounding regions (Central Asia, the Levant, and Egypt) during the late medieval and early modern periods. He works extensively with primary and manuscript sources in Islamic intellectual history. His broader areas of interest include the formative period of Islamic theology; Quranic exegesis at the intersection of legal-theoretical and Sufi hermeneutics; Ottoman intellectual history; Judeo-Arabic thought (particularly the Islamic reception of Maimonides’s legacy and Jewish Sufism); premodern plague treatises and their theological significance; and the transformation of Islamic scholarly traditions in modern times. He is currently completing a monograph on Mollā Fenārī (d. 834/1431) and his Sufi metaphysics of absolute being, alongside other projects involving the edition, translation, and analysis of primary and manuscript sources.

Education

Ph.D. The University of Chicago Divinity School (2025)
M.A. Freie Universität Berlin (2019)
M.A. Istanbul 29 Mayis University (2018)
B.A. Istanbul 29 Mayis University (2016)

Research Interests

Islamic Religious Thought; Sufi Metaphysics; Islamic Theology and Philosophy; Quranic Hermeneutics; Comparative Philosophy of Religion; Judeo-Arabic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism; Modern Muslim Theologies