Zeyneb Sayılgan, Ph.D., is the Muslim Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Her research centers mainly around Islamic theology, ethics and spirituality as articulated in the writings of Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1876-1960). Her other areas of interest are Christian-Muslim relations and the intersection of religion and migration. She holds a doctorate in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University, a Master degree from Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and a Master degree in Islamic Studies and Public Law from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. From 2010-2014, she served as a Muslim Chaplain-in-Residence on Georgetown’s campus supporting students from all faiths and none. Zeyneb’s personal experience of growing up in Germany as the daughter of Muslim immigrants from Türkiye informs her academic work and community engagement. She speaks Kurdish, Turkish, German and English. She reads also in Arabic, Farsi and French.
Zeyneb is the host of the Podcast On Being Muslim: Wisdom from the Risale-i Nur which is also available in German Begegnung mit dem Islam.
Her work has been published in following English, German and Turkish media outlets. For a full list please click on the images below:
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