Mahsuk Yamac
Dean of Graduate Studies. Lecturer.
Biography
Email: mahsuk@zaytuna.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Mr. Mahsuk Yamac is a scholar of the classical Islamic sciences with licenses to teach in all pertinent knowledges. His field specialties include Islamic Philosophy and the Liberal Arts, Arabic Grammar and Morphology, Logic, Argumentation Theory (Ādāb al-Baḩth wa-l-Munāẓara), and the Science of Lexical Semantics and Word-Coinage (‘ilm al-wad’). At Zaytuna College, Mr. Yamac has taught Islamic Philosophy 1 (Hidāyat al-Ḥikma), Islamic Philosophy 2-3-4 (Bidāyat al-Ḥikma), Arabic Grammar (Iẓhār al-Asrār).
Prior to his post at Zaytuna College, Mr. Yamac was the chair of Classical Islamic Sciences at Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (İSAR) from 2012 to 2016.
Mr. Yamac is a native Kurdish and Turkish speaker, is fluent in Arabic, and has reading and writing competencies in Persian and Ottoman.
Mr. Yamac joined the faculty of Zaytuna College in Fall 2017.
Education
- Zaytuna College, BA, Islamic Law and Theology, 2019
- Anadolu University, Turkey, AA, Theology, 2011
- Fatḥ al-Islam University, Syria, BA, Theology, 2004
Ijazah 'Ilmiyyah
Shaykh Muḥammad Rabi‘ al-Nadwī, Hadith Studies, Lucknow, India, 2013
Shaykh Sa‘īd Aḥmad Palanpūrī, Hadith Studies, Deoband, India, 2013
Shaykh Salmān al-Nadwī, Hadith Studies, Lucknow, India, 2013
Shaykh Husni Geçer, Classical Islamic Sciences (rational and transmitted), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
Shaykh Nūr ad-Dīn ‘Itr, Hadith Studies, Damascus, Syria, 2011
Shaykh Muḥammad Emīn Er al-Mirānī, Classical Islamic Sciences, Ankara, Turkey, 2010
Shaykh Muhammad Salīh al-Ghursī, Classical Islamic Sciences (rational and transmitted) Konya, Turkey, 2002
Shaykh Muḥammad Nūr Orak, Classical Islamic Sciences, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 2000