Ömer Türker is Director of the Islamic Philosophy Department at Marmara University’s Faculty of Theology. He completed his doctoral thesis in 2006 entitled “Sayyid Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s Understanding of Ta’wīl: Metaphysical, Logical and Linguistic Foundations of Interpretation”. He worked as a researcher at the Centre for Islamic Studies (İSAM) from 2005 to 2015. In 2012, he started working as a faculty member at Marmara University’s Faculty of Theology and continues to serve in this position.
In addition to his hundreds of articles, he has written many books, such as The Possibility of Metaphysical Knowledge in Ibn Sīnā’s Philosophy, Metaphysical Thought in Islam, The Problem of Interpretation in the Qur’anic Exegetical Works of the Early Period, What is Existence? Islamic Philosophy: A Topical Introduction, A Treatise on Evolutionary Theory, and The Nature of Morality. He has also translated works from leading philosophers and thinkers such as al-Fārābī’s Kitāb al-Ḥurūf, Ibn Sīnā’s Metaphysics and Kitāb al-Burhān, Sayyid Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s entire Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, and other works by Ghazālī and Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī. His works focus on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, and he has produced the three-volume work Metaphysics, a study involving hundreds of scholars that surveys the entire field of metaphysics throughout Islamic history.
