Dr Salih Yucel - Researcher Profile

Salih Yucel

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School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

I completed my Bachelor of Islamic Theology – a five-year program and equivalent to undergraduate and Masters degree – at the University of Ankara in 1982. I undertook various ecclesiastical roles for ten years for the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Turkey. Subsequent to attaining my Australian permanent-resident status, I completed my Master of Theology at the University of Sydney in 1996. I continued my postgraduate studies in United States and attained Doctorate of Ministry from Boston University in 2007. My doctoral research was about Tibb Nabawi – Medicine of the Prophet – from the earliest to modern period together with the effects of prayer on healing.

While I was in Boston, I was cofounder and the director of the Boston Dialogue Foundation, which is a community based organization dedicated to fostering interfaith and intercultural dialogue between Muslims and greater Boston community. I also worked as a pastoral care consultant for Harvard Medical School's hospitals. After ten years in the United States, I returned to Australia in 2007. I currently work as a  senior lecturer in the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University. I am also at advisory board of Islamic Studies at Charles Stuart University.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF MINISTRY
Institution: Boston University
Year awarded: 2007
MASTER OF THEOLOGY
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 1996
BACHELOR OF DIVINITY
Institution: Univeristy of Ankara
Year awarded: 1982

Publications

Books

Yucel, S., 2010, Prayer and Healing in Islam, Tughra Books, New Jersey USA.

Yucel, S., 2010, The Struggle of Ibrahim: Biography of an Australian Muslim, Tughra Books, New Jersey, USA.

Journal Articles

Yucel, S., 2012, The spirit of Hasan in Gulen's educational philosophy, Islamic Quarterly [P], vol 56, issue 3, The Islamic Cultural Centre, London, United Kingdom, pp. 281-298.

Yucel, S., 2011, Institutionalisation of Muslim-Christian dialogue: Nostra Aetate and Fethullah Gulen's vision, Islamic Quarterly [P], vol 55, issue 4, The Islamic Cultural Centre and London Central Mosque, London, United Kingdom, pp. 259-274.

Yucel, S., 2011, Is Islam part of the problem or solution: an Australian immigrant experience, Turkish Journal of Politics [E], vol 2, issue 1, Fatih University, Social Sciences Institute, Turkey, pp. 136-152.

Yucel, S., 2010, Fethullah Gullen: Spiritual leader in a global Islamic context, Journal of Religion and Society [E], vol 12, Creighton University, Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, US, pp. 1-13.

Yucel, S., 2009, Concept of shifa, healing, in the Qur'an and sunnah, Journal of Academic Studies [P], vol 11, issue 40, Maestro Danismanlik A.S., Istanbul Turkey, pp. 225-235.

Yucel, S., Sivri, S., 2009, Said Nursi's approach to the enviroment: A spiritual view on the Book of Universe, , issue 4, Da'Wah Academy, Islamabad-Pakistan, pp. 77-96.

Conference Proceedings

Yucel, S., 2010, Spiritual role models in Gulen's educational philosophy, The Significance of Education for the Future: The Gulen Model of Education, Fethullah Gulen Chair, State Islamic University, Jakarta Indonesia, Jakarta Indonesia, pp. 123-134.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
An analytical approach to the Islamic thought and ideology of Bernard Lewis and John Esposito.
Supervisors:
Yucel, S (Main), Ahmad, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Gulen movements dialogue inititives and its posotive effects on Islamophobia.
Supervisors:
Yucel, S (Main), Barton, G (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Islamic philanthropy and civic society activism: the differences between the secular schools and associated with the Guler movement and islamic schools in the secular states.
Supervisors:
Barton, G (Joint-co), Yucel, S (Joint).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Neither Shall They Grieve: The role and significance of the 'middle people' (umma wasat) and the ' moderate people (umma muqtasida) in the version of quranic pluralism.
Supervisors:
Yucel, S (Main), Ahmad, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Nur al-din and transformation of leadership in medieval Syria.
Supervisors:
Yucel, S (Main), Mews, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Prophethood and The Prophet: A Critical study of Muhammad Iqbal and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.
Supervisors:
Yucel, S (Main), Ahmad, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The concept of good deeds acording to Augustine and Al-Ghazali.
Supervisors:
Mews, C (Joint), Yucel, S (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The concept of jihad in pre-Islamic Syrian Christian and early Sufi Muslim writings.
Supervisors:
Mews, C (Main), Yucel, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The nature of Gulen's Sufism and what differs him from contemporary Sufis?.
Supervisors:
Millie, J (Joint-co), Yucel, S (Joint).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Van Den Berg, E.
Program of Study:
Language of the heart: a Sufi interpretation of form (sura) and meaning (mana) in contemporary society. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Rigby, C (Main), Yucel, S (Associate).