Center for Islamic Theology

Abdullah Rıdvan Gökbel

Doctoral Research Fellow

Research Group “De/Sacralisation of Texts” (FOR 2828)

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Office

Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 605

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abdullah.goekbelspam prevention@zith.uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours:

By appointment

Research

Main Research Areas

  • Systematic Theology (Kalām)
  • Muslim-Christian Polemics in Arabic, Syriac and Ottoman Turkish
  • Ottoman Intellectual History with focus on the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • Islamic Manuscripts

Kurzvita

Since 2022
Research Fellow and Ph.D. Student

Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen within the project “Argument from Scripture (Dalīl al-Naql): Muslim Perceptions of the Bible in the Early Ottoman Period” of the DFG Research Group “De/Sacralization of Texts” (FOR2828).

2016-2019
M.A. in History of Religions Department

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Istanbul University, with the thesis titled “Christian Scholars' Works on The Quran in The Early Islamic Period (675-900 A.D)”.

2018
Summer - Visiting Researcher

Cambridge Muslim College, Cambridge, Großbritannien

2016
Summer - Intensive Course in Arab Christian Theology

Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Münster at the Institute for Missiology and the Study of Theologies Beyond Europe, International Summer School “Arabic Christianity: History,Culture, Language, Theology, and Liturgy”.

2014
Summer - Advanced Arabic Training

Qasid Arabic Institute, Amman, Jordan.

2011-2016
Bachelor in Islamic Theology

Faculty of Theology, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Including a one-year intensive Arabic preparatory program and advanced training in Arabic at the University of Petra, Jordan.

Publications and Activities

Publications

Books

  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. (2020). Kur'an ve Hıristiyanlar: Hicri İlk Üç Asırda Arap-Süryânî Hıristiyanların Eserlerinde Kur'an [The Qurʾān and Christians: the Qurʾān in the Works of Arab-Syriac Christians in the First Three Islamic Centuries] (in Turkish). Ankara: Eski Yeni Press.
  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. (Forthcoming). Ahmet Mithat Efendi’s work Tedrisî Tarih-i Edyan, (in Ottoman Turkish). İstanbul: Dergah Yayınları.

Articles

  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. (2021). “Kütüphanelerdeki Süryanice El Yazmaları” [On Syriac Manuscripts in the World Libraries] (in Turkish). Z Journal, Library Special Issue, İstanbul: Zeytinburnu Belediyesi Yayınları.

Talks & Interviews

  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. “Prof. Dr. Şinasi Gündüz’le Söyleşi: Dinler tarihi perspektifinden Diyarbakır ve çevresi” [An Interview with Professor Sinasi Gunduz: Diyarbakır and its surroundings from the perspective of the history of religions] (in Turkish). Diyarbakır Kültür ve Medeniyet Dergisi, Diyarbakır: 2021.

Book Reviews

  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. (2020). Review of " Abdallah Marouf Omar, Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy: The Role of the Prophet Muhammad in the Conquest of Jerusalem, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019." İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi (Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies), 44 (2020), pp. 278-280.
  • Gökbel, Abdullah Rıdvan. (2021). Review of “Jack Tannous, The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 647 pp, ISBN 9780691179094.” The Maydan.

Presentations

  • “Review of Jack Tannous’ The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)” in Fourth Annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, George Mason University, November 20, 2020.
     
  • “Reading the Cultural Migration from Greek Thought to Arabic Culture”, in 34th Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, 03-05 May 2019, Chicago, IL, USA.
     
  • “Christian Scholars Using the Qurān in Early Islamic Centuries (675-900 A.D)”, Graduate Conference in Civilization Studies: Being Human and Human Being, The Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University, 5-6 April 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.
     
  • “Tārīh al-Adyān Lessons in the Last Period of Ottoman Madrasa and Ahmed Midhat Efendi's work Tadrīsī Tārīh al-Adyān”, 6. ISAR Öğrenci Sempozyumu (6th ISAR Student Symposium, April 30, 2017, Istanbul, Turkey. (In Turkish).
     
  • “İbn Hazm’s criticism to trinity in his Kitāb al-fasl”, International Summer School” Arabic Christianity: History, Culture, Language, Theology, and Liturgy”, University of Münster, July 18 - August 12 - 2016, Münster, Germany.