Dr. Necmettin Kızılkaya​

Dr. Necmettin Kızılkaya is the Head of Department and Professor of Islamic Law and Economics at the Faculty of Divinity, Istanbul University, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance. He holds a BA and MA in Islamic Studies and Islamic Law from Marmara University and earned his PhD in Islamic Law from the Institute of Social Sciences at Selçuk University in 2011.

Dr. Kızılkaya has held visiting fellowships at prestigious institutions, including Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge. His scholarly work lies at the intersection of Islamic law, economics, and modernity, with research interests spanning the history of Islamic law, Islamic corporate law, the methodology of Islamic economics, migration, halal food regulation, and other contemporary issues viewed through a legal lens.

He is the author of several books, including Legal Maxims in Islamic Law: Concept, History and Application of Axioms of Juristic Accumulation (Brill, 2021) and Methodology of Islamic Economics: Problems and Solutions (Routledge, 2020). His research has been widely published in leading academic journals and continues to contribute to scholarly discourse in both Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic economics.
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Dr. Kızılkaya serves as a member of the Governance and Ethics Board at the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He is the Editor-in-Chief of both the Darulfunun Ilahiyat Journal and the Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics (TUJISE), as well as an Editor at Iktisat Publishing House.