Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies is a bi-annual, scholarly periodical that has been published by the Foundation for Sciences and Arts since 1996. Divan, the Journal aims to publish sophisticated articles written from interdisciplinary perspectives and to present them to the Turkish intellectual circles.

DÎVÂN publishes original articles, research notes, conference papers and proceedings on a wide range of topics as well as reviews of books, dissertations, articles and manuscripts and those of symposia, panels, and conferences in social sciences, philosophy, history of science, law, history, arts and literature. It also occasionally publishes review articles and transcriptions of Ottoman texts in modern Turkish.

Owner

Foundation for Sciences and Arts

Editor-in-Chief

Mustafa Özel

Editor-in-Chief

Mehmet Akif Kayapınar, İstanbul University, Institute of Islamic Studies

Editorial Board

Prof. Mehmet Cüneyt Kaya, İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy

Assoc. Prof. Abdurrahman Atçıl, Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History

Assoc. Prof. Alim Arlı, Marmara University, Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Countries, Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Middle East

Assoc. Prof. Fatih Altuğ, Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Turkish Language and Literature

Assoc. Prof. Halil İbrahim Düzenli, Samsun University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Departmen of Architecture

Assoc. Prof. Hümeyra Özturan, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Department of History of Philosophy

Assoc. Prof. Macit Karagözoğlu, Marmara University, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Islamıc Studies, Department of Hadith

Assoc. Prof. Özgür Kavak, Marmara University, Basic Islamic Sciences, Department of Islamic Jurisprudence

Asst. Prof. Ahmet Okumuş, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Political Science and International Relations

Asst. Prof. Ali Adem Yörük, İstanbul University, Faculty of Law, Public Law Department, Department of Legal History

Asst. Prof. Ayşe Başaran, Marmara University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, History Department, Department of Modern History

Asst. Prof. Esra Kartal Soysal, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy

Asst. Prof. Mustafa Demiray, Türkiye Diyanet Foundation Centre for Islamıc Studies, Islamic Jurisprudence

Faruk Deniz, The Foundation for Sciences and Arts, Political Science and International Relations

Advisory Board

Prof. Abdullah Yavaş, University of Wisconsin, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics (Madison, USA)

Prof. Alparslan Açıkgenç, Üsküdar University, Department of Philosophy (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. Dimitri Gutas, Yale University, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (New Haven, USA)

Prof. Engin Deniz Akarlı, University of Brown, Department of History (Providence, USA)

Prof. Fazıl Önder Sönmez, Boğaziçi University, Departmen of Mechanical Engineering (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science, (South Bend, USA)

Prof. İbrahim Kafi Dönmez, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University, Faculty of Law (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. İhsan Fazlıoğlu, İstanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Philosophy (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. Jamil Ragep, McGill University, Department of History (Montreal,Canada)

Prof. Lejla Demiri, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Islamic Theology (Tübingen, Germany)

Prof. Mehmet Akif Aydın, İstanbul Medipol University, Faculty of Law (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. Murteza Bedir, İstanbul University, Department of Islamic Studies (İstanbul, Turkey)

Prof. Richard Falk, Princeton University, Department of International Law (Princeton, USA)

Assoc. Prof. Hızır Murat Köse, İstanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Sociology (İstanbul, Turkey)

Asst. Prof. Evengelia Balta, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Ottoman History (Athens, Greece)

Book Review Editors

İsa İlkay Karabaşoğlu, Serhat Aslaner

Editorial Assistant

Uğur Topal, Yusuf Ziya Altıntaş