Dr. Necmettin Kızılkaya​

Dr. Necmettin Kızılkaya is a 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.
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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. His research interests span a broad range of topics including the history of Islamic law, Islamic corporate law, methodology of Islamic economics, migration, halal food regulation, and other contemporary issues viewed through a legal lens.
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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.

Dr. Kızılkaya serves as a scientific advisor to various academic journals, sits on the editorial boards of several others, and is the editor-in-chief of theTurkish Journal of Islamic Economics (TUJISE).