Islamic sciences have a dynamic nature through their methodological skills. This dynamism allows them to address the whole aspects of man’s interaction with man, the physical environment, Allah, and creatures as well as to meet the latest challenges. IMU Faculty of Theology aims to bring this dynamic characteristic of Islamic sciences into view. For this, considering today’s issues, it targets to investigate the vast knowledge of traditional sciences.
Our faculty, which set out with the aim of building an education that deeply engages with the traditional body of Islamic knowledge, is responsive to contemporary debates in the world of science and thought, and makes visible the dynamic structure of Islamic sciences, is composed of the following departments: Basic Islamic Sciences, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Islamic History and Arts. Under these departments are academic divisions of Arabic Language and Rhetoric, Hadith, Islamic Law, History of Islamic Sects, Kalam (Islamic Theology), Qur’anic Recitation, Sufi Studies, Qur’anic Exegesis (Tafsir), Religious Education, Philosophy of Religion, Psychology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, History of Religions, Islamic Philosophy, Logic, Islamic Turkish Literature, Prophetic Biography and Islamic History, Turkish Religious Music, Turkish Islamic Literature, and History of Turkish Islamic Arts.