ACCEPTED PAPERS
All abstracts submitted to the symposium have been carefully reviewed by our Scientific Committee and the evaluation process has been completed. The accepted papers are listed below under the main themes of the symposium, in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author.
We thank all of our esteemed colleagues for the strong interest and scholarly contribution shown to our symposium, and we congratulate those whose papers have been accepted.
Papers submitted in Turkish only are listed with their original Turkish titles.
PRE-ISLAMIC KONYA · 3 papers
1. Prof. Dr. Hasan BAHAR – Prof. Dr. Murat ORAL – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat TURGUT
“Religious Architects of Konya in the Hittite Period: Tudhaliya IV, Kurunta(?), and Warpalawas”
2. Prof. Dr. Fatih Mehmet BERK – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa ARSLAN
“Saints of Iconium”
3. Prof. Dr. Kasım ERTAŞ
“A Female Saint in the Early Christian Tradition: Thecla of Iconium”
KONYA IN THE SELJUK PERIOD · 34 papers
4. Prof. Dr. Muhammed Abdullah AHMED
“Konya as a Destination for Sufi Journeys: Incoming Sufi Figures and Their Contribution to Shaping the City’s Spiritual Memory in the 7th and 8th Centuries AH”
5. Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Mine AKAR
“An Example of Shaṭḥiyya in the Akbarian Tradition: al-Jandī’s al-Qaṣīda al-ghaybiyya”
6. Asst. Prof. Dr. Edip AKYOL
“A Political Actor in Saljūq Konya: Muʿīn al-Dīn Sulaymān Parwāna’s Administrative Strategies and Relations with Religious Circles”
7. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vesile ALBAYRAK SAK
“Architects of Architects: Human Dimensions of the Master–Disciple Relationship in Thirteenth-Century Konya”
8. Prof. Dr. Syed Naeem BADSHAH – Prof. Dr. Naseem AKHTAR
“Shams of Tabriz and the Spiritual Transformation of Konya: His Influence on Mawlana Rumi and the Formation of Konya’s Spiritual Memory”
9. Dr. Büşra BAĞCI
“Selâhaddin Zerkûbî”
10. Asst. Prof. Dr. Melek COŞGUN SOLAK
“The Memorialization of Religious Authority in the Case of Mawlana and the Symbolic Construction of Konya”
11. Res. Asst. Nuri ÇİÇEK
“Sadreddin Konevi and the Foundation of Metaphysics as a Science”
12. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali ÇOBAN
“İncinsen de İncitme: Mevlânâ ve Sonrası Sûfî Gelenekte İncinmeme-İncitmeme İlkesi”
13. Prof. Dr. Muhanned Nafi’ Hattab EL-MUHTAR
“The Reception of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Contemporary Arab Culture: A Study in the Transformations of Sufi Discourse from Philosophical Elites to Mass Platforms”
14. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin GÜNEŞ
“The Contribution of Qadi Sirāj al-Dīn al-Urmawī to the Scholarly Milieu of Konya”
15. Prof. Dr. Könül HACIYEVA
“Konya’s Contribution to the Intellectual Legacy of Shams-i Tabrizi: An Examination Focusing on Mevlana”
16. Prof. Dr. Hisham Sawadi HASHIM
“From Mosul to Konya: Siraj al-Din al-Urmawi and the Role of Scholarly Networks in Building the Scientific and Spiritual Memory of the Seljuk”
17. Elçin HÜSEYNBEYLİ
“The Formation of Sufi Thought in Konya: An Evaluation within the Framework of Bahaeddin Veled, Mevlânâ, and Sadreddin Konevî”
18. Prof. Dr. Ibtihal Adel IBRAHIM
“Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi: A Pioneer of Philosophical Sufism (‘Irfan) in Konya during the Seventh Century AH”
19. Dr. Muhammad IQBAL
“Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s Methodology in Unveiling the Secrets of Sūrat al-Fātiḥa: An Analytical Study of Iʿjāz al-Bayān fī Tafsīr Umm al-Qurʾān”
20. Prof. Dr. Doğan KAPLAN
“Ahmed Eflâkî’nin Menâkıbu’l-Ârifîn’inde Geçen Şahıs ve Yer Adları Bağlamında 13.-14. Yüzyıl Konya’sının İrfan Topoğrafyası ve Sosyal Ağı”
21. Asst. Prof. Dr. Hicret KARADUMAN
“Parçadan Bütüne: Şeyh Dekûkî Kıssası Bağlamında Mevlânâ’da Gerçek Kendilik Yolculuğu”
22. Dr. Bayram KARAKULLUKCU
“A Heritage Taken Out of Context: An Evaluation of the Mevlevi Ritual in the Context of Commercialization and Overtourism in Light of UNESCO Directives”
23. Sibel KARATAŞ
“The Post of Ali Gav on the Walls: The Spiritual Construction of Konya through the Legend of Ali Gav and the Evolution of a Space from a Zaviya to a Madrasah”
24. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhammad MASHARIB
“Ḥadīth as the Source of Rūmī’s Mathnawī: A Reappraisal of Orientalist Approach Regarding the Origins of Taṣawwuf”
25. Hakimov Munisjon MURODOVİÇ
“Konya Metropolitan Municipality Publication: The Uzbek Academic Translation of “Masnavi-i Ma‘navi” and Its Significance”
26. Asst. Prof. Dr. Sema ÖZDEMİR
“Mawlana and Davud Kaysari’s Perspective on Immortality: The Tree of Immortality and Water of Life”
27. Dr. Abdul RASHEED – Sahar RAJPER
“The Spiritual Bridge between Konya and South Asia: ʿAllāma Iqbāl’s Conceptualization of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī as Pīr-i Rūmī”
28. Prof. Dr. Fevzi RENÇBER
“Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s Perception of Madhhab and His Conception of the Ummah: An Evaluation from the Perspective of the History of Islamic Sects”
29. Gulnoz SATTOROVA
“The Common Qualities of the Concepts of Faith and Morality in the Works of Mevlâna Jalal al-Din Rumi and Leo Tolstoy”
30. Alper SIZLANAN
“The Formation of an Intellectual Infrastructure in the Memory of Stone: Bedreddin Gevhertaş’s Madrasa, Waqf and Architectural Legacy”
31. Prof. Dr. Hanifi ŞAHİN
“Ummah Consciousness and the Metaphysical Foundations against Division in Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī”
32. Asst. Prof. Dr. Salih TUZER
“An Evaluation of Morality, Labor, and Social Responsibility in Ahi Evran’s Latāʾif al-Ghiyāthiyya from the Perspective of the Akhism Tradition”
33. Dr. Ayşenur ÜNAL
“The Attitude of the Mevlevis towards Esoteric Groups in the 13th Century”
34. Res. Asst. Dr. Menekşe Filiz YILDIRIM
“Language and Rhetoric in Zayn al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Commentarial Method: A Study of Kunūz al-barāʿa”
35. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cüneyt YILMAZ
“Selçuklu Konyası Bağlamında Nasreddin Hoca Fıkralarında Devlet-Toplum İlişkisinin Siyaset Bilimi Perspektifinden Analizi”
36. Asst. Prof. Dr. Eyyüp YILMAZ
“Symbolic Figures of Mystical Resistance in Hagiographical Narratives: Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī against the Mongols”
37. Assoc. Prof. Dr. İzzetullah ZEKİ
“Turkestani Sages and Litterateurs in the Seljuk State of Rūm: The Case of Sayf al-Farghānī”
KONYA IN THE BEYLIKS AND CLASSICAL OTTOMAN PERIODS · 13 papers
38. Prof. Dr. Ali AKPINAR
“Ni‘metullah Nakhchivani (Azerbaijan–Nakhchivan, d. 920/1514, Akşehir/Konya) and His Method of Qur’anic Exegesis”
39. Dr. Mahmut ASLAN
“Sultan Veled ve Konya: Miras, Hafıza ve Mânâ Ekseninde Konya’da Mevlevîliğin Teşekkülü”
40. Ayfer CAN
“Hz. Mevlânâ’nın Torunu Ulu Ârif Çelebi: Hayatı, Şahsiyeti ve Tasavvufî Görüşleri”
41. Dr. Hacer ÇELİK
“Seyyid Harun Velî and the Founding of Seydişehir”
42. Dr. Şahin DOĞAN
“Lala Mustafa Pasha in Ilgın’s Educational and Cultural Memory: The Sıbyan School and Library”
43. Asst. Prof. Dr. Serhat GÜLTAŞ
“Mawlānā and the Mathnawī in Vāqiʿāt-i Uftāde: Uftāde’s Perception of Mawlānā and His Interpretation of the Mathnawī”
44. Prof. Dr. Mehmet İPÇİOĞLU
“From Sacred Lineage to Urban Authority: The Sādāt and the Naqīb al-Ashrāf in Ottoman Konya”
45. Asst. Prof. Dr. Yasin KURNAZ
“Anadolu’s Ibn Sīnā: Ḥājjī Pāshā’s Teshīl and His Contribution to the Turkification of Medical Science”
46. Lect. Dr. Mustafa Serdar ÖZCAN
“Life of Hamid Efendi of Konya, the Shaykh al-Islam (d. 985/1577), and the Classification of His Fatwa Collections in Manuscript Libraries”
47. Lect. Dr. Sinanettin Arif ÖZDEMİR – Lect. Dr. Muhammed Emin ERDİM
“Nuh b. Mustafa al-Konawī’s Approach to Mushkil Hadiths Related to Creed in His Commentary on al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr”
48. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ş. Cem TUYSUZ
“Emir Temürtaş’s Declaration of Mahdism in Konya and His Political and Social Activities”
49. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muammer ULUTÜRK
“The Personality and Philanthropy of Grand Vizier Pîrî Mehmed Pasha”
50. Lect. Dr. Halil İbrahim ÜREN
“Konyalı Mehmed Emin Efendi (d. 1174/1760) and His Work Tabakâtü’l-Kurrâ fi’l-Kırâati’s-Seb‘a”
THE LATE OTTOMAN AND REPUBLICAN PERIODS · 31 papers
51. Prof. Dr. Ramazan ACAR
“Hotamış Türkmenlerinden Camili Medresesi Müderrisi İsmail Efendi”
52. Asst. Prof. Dr. Bünyamin AÇIKALIN
“Scientific Interpretation in Konyalı Mehmed Vehbi’s Commentary Titled “Hulâsatu’l-Beyân fî Tefsîri’l-Kur’an””
53. Prof. Dr. Murat AK
“Keçecizâde İzzet Molla’s Mihnet-keşân in the Context of Center–Periphery Relations”
54. Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Veysel AKCAN
“A Judge and Legal Tradition in Konya’s Collective Memory: Mevlânâ Hıfzı Abdurrahman Efendi”
55. Asst. Prof. Dr. Eyüp AKDOĞAN
“Building the Memory of the City through Poetry: The Imagination of Konya in the Poems of Kaşıkçı Ali Rıza Konevî”
56. Asst. Prof. Dr. Abdulvahap ALICI
“Şehit-i Muhterem Abdülezel Paşa’nın Hayatı ve Şahadeti”
57. Asst. Prof. Dr. Funda ARSLAN BİLGİN
“Behiç Erkin’s Konya Years: Institutions Founded in the City by a Railway Administration (1921–1924)”
58. Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe AYDIN
“The Memory of a Spiritual Architect: Practices of Remembrance in Konya, as Exemplified by Ladikli Ahmet Hüdai”
59. Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhammet Ali ÇAĞLAR
“The Hidden Value of the Ḥādimī Family: Abū Naʿīm al-Ḥādimī and His Jurisprudence”
60. Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatih Muhammed ÇAKMAK
“A Sufi Text as a Source for Sīra: The Portrayal of the Prophet in Tahir Büyükkörükçü’s Mevlânâ ve Mesnevî Gözüyle Peygamber Efendimiz”
61. Ahmet ÇELİK
“The Letters Sent by Shaykhzade Ahmet Ziya Efendi to Ali Rıza Efendi from Prison and Their Evaluation”
62. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Halil İbrahim ÇELİK
“Gilisralızade Hacı Tahir Efendi (1863–1945)”
63. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Taha ÇELİK
“Konyalı Mehmed Vehbi’nin Sahîh-i Buhârî Tecrîd-i Sarîh Muhtasarı ve Ahmed Naim’in Tecrîd-i Sarîh Tercemesiyle Mukayesesi”
64. Lect. Hasan ÇİFTÇİ
“Qur’an Instructor Hafiz Hasan Hüseyin Varol and Qur’an Teaching Methods”
65. Lect. Dr. Fatih ÇOLAK
“A Turkestani Scholar among the Friends of Hacı Veyiszade Efendi: Muhammad Aziz Tüleykan–Metes Kâri”
66. Lect. Dr. Fatih ÇOLAK
“A Turkestani Scholar Buried in Üçler Cemetery in Konya: Hacı Ahmet Haki İzler Efendi”
67. Asst. Prof. Dr. Rabia DOĞRU
“The Literary Memory of Konya in the Memoirs of Ali Ulvi Kurucu”
68. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Sami ELAYDY
“From Konya to Egypt: An Intellectual — Ali Ulvi Kurucu’s Scholarly, Intellectual, and Literary Milieu”
69. Hatice ERGÜN ATÇI
“Hacıveyiszâde Mustafa Kurucu Efendi Hakkında Yazılmış Kitaplara Analitik Bir Yaklaşım”
70. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nejdet GÖK
“Veyiszade Mustafa Kurucu’dan Ali Ulvi Kurucu’ya Veyiszade Ailesi: Hayatları, İlmî Kişilikleri ve Yanlış Atfedilen Hitabet Beratı”
71. Res. Asst. Dr. Elif Gül GÖKHAN
“A Classical Approach to the Translation of Figurative Expressions: Abū Naʿīm Aḥmad al-Hādimī’s Risāla fī Ḥaqq al-Alfāẓ al-Majāziyya”
72. Res. Asst. Dr. Ülfer KARABULUT
“Ahmed el-Hâdimî’nin İlim Tanımlarına Yaklaşımı: Risâle el-Mezâhib fî Ta‘rîfi’l-İlm Üzerine Bir İnceleme”
73. Prof. Dr. İsmail KIVRIM
“Eşenlerlizâde es-Seyyid Abdurrahman Efendi, Mufti of Konya”
74. Dr. Rıdvan KIZILKAYA
“The Reflection of Spiritual Legacy on the National Struggle: Ali Kemal Hoca, a Pioneer of the Konya Kuvay-ı Milliye”
75. Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Hamdi KUZUCUOĞLU
“Konya’s Spiritual Architect Dr. Mehmet Hulusi Baybal: A Model of City-Building through Healthcare, Education, and Foundation Services”
76. Fatih ÖZ
“A Scholar of Dual Competence in Konya’s Tradition of Knowledge and Spiritual Wisdom: The Integration of Fiqh and Sufism, the Madrasa-Tekke Relationship, and the Scholarly Legacy of Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad al-Khādimī”
77. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Bilal ÖZTÜRK
“What Is the Conception of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Konya Intellectual Milieu? An Evaluation with Special Reference to the Hadimi Family”
78. Asst. Prof. Dr. Şükriye Pınar ÖZYALVAÇ
“The Spiritual Architects of Konya through the Hadimi Library: Founders, Book Foundations, and Librarians”
79. Bekir ŞAHİN
“A Scholar in Konya’s Tradition of Learning and Fatwa: Hüseyin Feyzi Efendi of Kadınhanı (1824–1894)”
80. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan TELLİ
“Konya Hadim-Originated Dersiâms of Bayezid Mosque”
81. Hasan YAŞAR
“Mehmet Eminoğlu’nun Hayatı, Eserleri ve Kütüphanesi”
THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE PAPERS · 1 papers
82. Lect. Dr. Cihad DOĞAN
“Spiritual Memory and the Representation of Spiritual Architects in Konya’s City Brand Identity”
NOTE ON THE EVALUATION PROCESS
Every abstract submitted to the symposium was assessed individually by our Scientific Committee in accordance with the main theme of the symposium, its sub-themes and its academic criteria. Abstracts whose authors do not appear in the list above could not be included in this year’s programme following the Committee’s evaluation.
This outcome does not constitute a judgement on the scholarly value of those studies; it largely reflects the thematic scope of the symposium and the capacity of the programme. We extend our sincere thanks to our esteemed colleagues whose papers could not be included for the interest and effort they have shown, and we hope to welcome them at our future academic events.
The Organizing Committee