Ravza Aydın received her BA from Marmara University, Faculty of Theology and completed both her MA and PhD on History of Religions at Sakarya University. Her master’s thesis focused on “The Principles of Faith According to Maimonides”, while her doctoral dissertation examined the concepts of God, the universe, and the human being in the Sefer ha-Zohar.
She is currently a research assistant in the Department of History of Religions at Sakarya University. Her research interests include medieval Jewish philosophy, Kabbalistic cosmology, and the intersections between Jewish and Islamic thought.
She is presently conducting her postdoctoral research at the Research Centre for Jewish Arabic Cultures, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), with the support of a TÜBİTAK fellowship. Her current project, titled “The Sefirot System as the Theory of the Universe in Sefer ha-Zohar and its Similarities with Wahdat al-Wujud (Unity of Existence) in Islamic Thought”, explores the metaphysical parallels between Kabbalistic and Islamic mystical cosmologies.
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Areas of Interest
History of religions, comparative religion • Islam and Christianity
Historical Periods of Interest
Middle Ages, Ottoman Period
Positions
2010-Present
Research Fellow, History of Religions, Sakarya University, Faculty of Theology
Apr. 26 – May 10, 2011
Secretary, IP Erasmus: “Translating God(s): Islam and Christianity in Southeast Europe”, Marmara University Faculty of Theology-Dublin, Irish School of Ecumenics
Education
2021
PhD, History of Religions, Sakarya University
2012
MA, History of Religions, Sakarya University
2009
BA, Faculty of Theology, Marmara University
Awards and distinction
2025
TÜBİTAK 2219- International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program for Turkish Citizens
2014
MEB Overseas Government Scholarships, Israel, University of Haifa (Intensive Ulpan)
2011
Publications
Books
2025
Yahudi Mistisizminde Tanrı, Âlem ve İnsan Sefer Ha-Zohar Örneği (İstanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2025).
Edited Books:
2022
Aynur Çınar, Antik Dünyada Kutsal Ruhun Öncüsü: Külli Ruh, ed. Ravza Aydın, İstanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2022.
2021
Leo Schaya, Kabala’nın Temel Öğretileri: Mutlak ve İnsan, trans. Sedat Yüksel, ed. Ravza Aydın, İstanbul: İnsan Yayınları, 2021.
2018
Mükerrem Bedizel Aydın & Ravza Aydın (eds.), Osmanlı’da Mimari, Sanat ve Yemek Kültürü, İstanbul: Mahya Yayınları, 2018.
Articles
2019
“Sefer ha-Zohar ve Yahudi Literatüründeki Yeri”, Darulfunun İlahiyat 30 (2019/2): 359–382.
2018
“Mizrahi Yahudileri ve İsrail’deki Sosyo-Kültürel Durumları”, Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 37 (2018/1): 81–105
2012
“Yahudi İnanç Esasları”, Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 25 (2012/1): 189–201.
