Code: LH21505
Dates: October 18 - November 29, 2022
Meets: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Sessions: 6
Location: ONLINE
Course Fee: $89.00
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Yasemin Akis
Yasemin Akis is a professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and a part time faculty member at The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her Ph.D in Philosophy in 2014 at Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Turkey. Since then, she has taught philosophy and theology courses at the undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels both in Turkey and in the United States. As postdoctoral research, she decided to work on Sufism, Islamic mysticism to expand her knowledge in the area of Philosophy of Religion and world religions. She has been teaching “Wisdom of Sufism” and “The Religious Traditions of Middle East” at Villanova University since 2017. Her research interests focus on existentialism, the relation of philosophy and religion and religious and mystical traditions of the Middle East. Her current research is on the Sufis of Anatolia.