He was born in 1952 in Erzurum. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University (1974). He received his MA from the University of Wisconsin (1978) and his PhD from the University of Chicago (1983). In 1983, he started to work at METU Department of Philosophy. He became Assistant Professor in 1984, Associate Professor in 1987 and Professor in 1993. He worked at the University of Chicago in 1985 and at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Malaysia between 1995-99. Afterwards, he served as Vice Rector and faculty member at Fatih University between 2006-2009, and then held administrative and academic positions at Yıldız Technical University. Since 2017, he has been continuing his academic studies at Ibn Haldun University. In addition to numerous articles and books, he is the author of Philosophy of Data (1992), Being and Existence in Sadrā and Heidegger: A Comparative Ontology (Kuala Lumpur, 1992); Philosophy of Knowledge: From Science to System Philosophy in the Islamic Context (Istanbul, 1992); Islamic Science: Towards a Definition (Kuala Lumpur 1996); Islamization of Knowledge as Concept and Process (1998); Scientific Thought and its Burdens (Istanbul 2000); Knowledge and Science in Islamic Civilization (Istanbul 2006).