Res. Asst. MUSTAFA ERDEMİR

He was born in Osmaniye in 1998. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in the Bahçe district of Osmaniye. In 2016, he enrolled in the Faculty of Theology at Sakarya University. During his undergraduate studies, he spent eight months at Zarqa University in Jordan, receiving education in Arabic language and Islamic studies. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Sakarya University in 2021.

In the same year, he began his master’s studies in the Department of Islamic History at the Institute of Social Sciences of Istanbul University. During his master’s education, he conducted research particularly on early Islamic history and the historical value of narrative materials. He successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “The Identification and Evaluation of Shaʿbī’s Narratives in Islamic History” in July 2024.

While continuing his master’s studies, he was appointed as a research assistant in the Department of Islamic History at the Faculty of Theology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, in March 2022. He is currently serving at the same faculty.

He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in the Department of Islamic History at the Institute of Social Sciences of Istanbul University. Within the scope of his research in Islamic History, he focuses on the historical development of Islam from the pre-Islamic (Jāhiliyya) period to the end of the Abbasid era, with particular emphasis on early narrative traditions and their historical context.