Zeyneb Sayılgan, Ph.D., serves as the Muslim Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Her research focuses on 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 International University for Religion&Peace (formerly 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 (non-) and all religious backgrounds. 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 also reads in Arabic, Farsi and French. Zeyneb is the author of “Maryam – The Muslim Mary – A Spiritual Guide for Our Times” (under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing), the author of “Blessed Strangers: An Islamic Theology of Immigration” (under contract with Baylor University Press) and “Death, Dying and Grief in Islam: A Muslim Mother’s Theology on Child Loss, Spiritual Resilience and Hope,” (under contract with Cascade Publishing). 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.
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