Members of the Advisory Committee and Their Resumes

Mehmet ODABAŞI
Head of the Advisory Committee

Graduated from the Religious Vocational High School in Sivas in 1993. While in high school, he took Arabic and Islamic sciences lessons. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Theology in 1998. In 2005, he completed his master’s degree at Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Islamic Law. He is currently studying for his doctoral thesis on Islamic Law at the same university. He took lessons of Arabic and Islamic Sciences from valuable instructors during his undergraduate and graduate studies. He was a part of translation committee of el-Mebsût of İmam Serahsi and İthâfu’l-kârî bihtisâri Fethi’l-bârî. He was part of the translation project of el-Meâyîrü’ş-şer’iyye released by the Islamic Board of AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) into Turkish with the name Interest-free Financial Standards. In this translation project, the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) was the Supporting Institution, the Participation Banks Association of Türkiye (TKBB) was the Project Sponsor and İstanbul Zaim University was the Translation Organizer. He translated half of the afore-mentioned standards. He took part in the establishment of Türkiye’s first Islamic Financial Consultancy company. Mr. Odabaşı was involved in structuring the establishment processes of Ziraat Katılım, Türkiye’s first public participation bank, in accordance with participation finance principles, and has provided consultancy services so far. He was also in the project of implementation of Türkiye’s first window model participation insurance application within Ziraat Insurance. He was part of Türkiye’s first sukuk issuance project based on agricultural commodity. He was also a part of establishment of Ziraat Katılım Index. During his studies at İSFA Islamic Financing Consultancy, he took part in numerous sukuk issuances, establishment and structuring projects of real estate investment funds, venture capital investment funds, stock market investment funds and pension funds.

Prof. Dr. Süleyman KAYA
Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee

Graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University in 1998. He completed his master’s degree in 2000 and his PhD in 2007 in the Department of Islamic Law at Marmara University. He completed his master’s degree in the Department of Economic History at the same university in 2003. He is currently serving as a faculty member at the Department of Islamic Law in the Faculty of Theology, at İstanbul University.

Prof. Dr. Necmettin KIZILKAYA
Advisory Committee Member

Graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Marmara University in 2001. He received his master’s degree in Islamic Law at the same university. He completed his doctoral studies at the Social Sciences Institute from Selçuk University in 2011. Mr. Kızılkaya’s work is more focused on the Islamic Law and the Economy. He is especially interested in the History of Islamic Law, Modernization and Fiqh, the 19^th Century Economic and Legal Transformations, Islamic Legal Literature, the Islamic Economy and Contemporary Fiqh Issues. Mr. Kızılkaya, published many studies in various languages in the field of Islamic Law, and he is still serving as a faculty member in the Department of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology at İstanbul University.