MUHAMMED ŞAHİN

EDUCATION 

Postdoc in Islamic Law, Ibn Haldun University
01 Nov 2025 - Current | Istanbul, Türkiye

PhD in Islamic Law, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (ZITH)
22 Feb 2022 – 30 Apr 2025 | Tübingen, Germany

• Final Grade: 1.7 – cum laude
• Dissertation: “Gharīb” Literature Through al-Nāṭifī’s Works: al-Rawḍa as a Case Study
• University profile

PhD in Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Marmara University
Sep 2021 – expected 2026 | Istanbul, Türkiye

• Final Grade: 3.79 (unweighted)
• Dissertation (Turkish): Hicrî V. Yüzyıla Kadar Hanefîlerde “Usûl ile Taʿlīl”

MA, Islamic Studies (Islamic Law), Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University
Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 | Istanbul, Türkiye

• Final Grade: 3.74
• Thesis: The Differences Between Iraqi and Transoxianian Ḥanafī Scholars
• Thesis link

BA, Islamic Studies, University of Tripoli
Dec 2015 – Oct 2018 | Tripoli, Lebanon

BA, Islamic and Civil Law (English Track), Al-Azhar University
Aug 2010 – Jul 2014 | Cairo, Egypt

WORK EXPERIENCE 

Project Manager, Miletos Müteferriqa — Istanbul, Türkiye
01 Jul 2025 – Present

• Lead development of an AI-based handwriting recognition system for Arabic-script manuscripts.
• Coordinate project collaboration across universities and research institutions.
• Supervise a multidisciplinary team (5–30 members) in software development and manuscript analysis.

Religious Scientific Researcher (Editor), Türkiye Diyanet Foundation – Centre for Islamic Studies (İSAM)
28 Feb 2018 – 30 Jun 2025 | Istanbul, Türkiye

• Edited critical editions of classical Islamic legal texts.
• Coordinated manuscript-based research and scholarly publications.
• Managed editorial processes for academic monographs and journal submissions.

PROJECTS 

Handwriting Recognition System for Arabic-Script Languages
Miletos Yazılım Bilgi Teknolojileri AR-GE Ticaret A.Ş.
May 2025 – Aug 2025

• Funded by TÜBİTAK TEYDEB under the “1501 – 2023–2” Industrial R&D Support Program (Project No. 3231714).

TEACHING 

Project Courses & Instruction

• Masāʾil al-Khilāf fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh, al-Ṣaymarī (2025–present)
• Mirqāt al-Wuṣūl ilā ʿIlm al-Uṣūl, Mullā Khusraw — Irshad Centre, UK (2023–2025; 14 months)
• Sharḥ al-Aqṭaʿ ʿalā Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī — Irshad Centre, UK (2023–2025; 4 volumes over 28 months)
• Manuscript & text criticism — ISAM, Istanbul (2023–2025)
• Ḥanafī Schools of Law — Irshad Centre, UK (2021; 15 teaching hours)
• Risāla fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Mullā Khusraw — Ṣaḥn-ı Semān Madrasa, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul (2021)
• al-Masāʾil allatī Dhukira fī Ghayr Maḥallihā, Muḥammad Kāmi Afandī — Ṣaḥn-ı Semān, Fatih Mosque, Istanbul (2019)

Subject-Specific Instruction

• Fiqh: Al-Lubāb fī Sharḥ al-Kitāb; al-Jawhara al-Nayyira
• Manṭiq (Logic): al-Damanhūrī’s Sharḥ al-Sullam al-Munawraq; Sharḥ al-Mirqāt
• Uṣūl al-Fiqh: Sharḥ Simt al-Wuṣūl; Ibn Qutlūbughā’s commentary on al-Manār

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS 

2025

• “A Missing Text: Ḥanafī–Muʿtazilī Relations in the 4th Century AH” — Reading Workshop, Istanbul (University of Texas, ISAM, Bln Inst, ISAR; 25–28 Jun)
• “The Influence of Madhhab on Iraqi Ḥanafī Scholars” — ISLIS Conference, Münster (22–24 May)

2024

• “Beyond ʿIllah: Formatting a Jurisprudential Theory” — 4th Annual Ḥanafī School Workshop, Samarkand. Unversity of Texas, ISAM, Unversity of Münster, Imam bukhari center.
• “Early Codification Attempts: The Transoxianian Ḥanafī School” — Oxford Workshop on Islamic Codification, All souls’ college, Oxford. 

2023

• “The Rise of al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya” — 3rd Annual Ḥanafī School Workshop, Istanbul, Unversity of Texas, ISAM.
• Reading in Kitāb al-Ijtihād by al-Juwaynī — Ṣaḥn-ı Semān Risāle Günleri, Istanbul 

2022

• “Personal Doctrine in Iraqi Ḥanafī Works” — 2nd Annual Ḥanafī School Workshop, unversity of Sarajevo.  
• “Normative Verses (Āyāt al-Aḥkām) in Modern Times” — University of Tübingen (online)  

2020

• “The Ḥanafī School in Transoxiana” & “Introduction to Turkish Manuscript Libraries” — Qatar National Library 
• “Yazma Eser Kültürü: Arab World Institutions & Activities” — Manuscript Centre, FSM, Istanbul

PUBLICATIONS 

• “The Historiography of Legal Maxims from al‑Shaybānī to al‑Karkhī,” Mevzu: Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 15 (Mar 2025): 551–576

Selected Recent

• Yazma Eserlerde Vakıf Mühürleri (translation from Turkish to Arabic; Günay Kut & Nimet Bayraktar; co‑translator, 2021)
• Kitāb al‑Taqrīb by al‑Qudūrī (2 vols., 960 pp; critical edition, Dār al‑Rayāḥīn, 2021; 2nd ed. Ismāʿīl Bookstore, 2025)
• Fatāwā Shaykh al‑Islām ʿAṭāʾ b. Ḥamza al‑Sughdī (critical edition, 2020; Dār al‑Rayāḥīn; 2nd ed. Ismāʿīl Bookstore, 2025)
• Majāmiʿ al‑Ḥaqāʾiq wa‑l‑Qawāʿid… by Abū Saʿīd al‑Khādimī (critical edition, Dār al‑Nūr al‑Mubīn, 2018)
• al‑Fawāʾid al‑Fiqhiyya fī Aṭrāf al‑Qaḍiyya al‑Ḥukmiyya by Badr al‑Dīn Ibn al‑Ghars (critical edition, same publisher, 2018)

EDITORIAL PROJECTS I CONTRIBUTED TO AT İSAM

[2025] 

Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr by al-Jaṣṣāṣ.  2024, 3 vols.

[2021]

Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr by al-Sarakhsī. 2 vols.

Sharḥ ʿUqūd Rasm al-Muftī by Ibn ʿĀbidīn. 2 vols.

[2020] 

Jāmiʿ al-Uṣūl by Rukn al-Dīn al-Samarqandī. 4 vols.

al-Tasdīd Sharḥ al-Tamhīd by al-Ṣighnāqī. Turkish Manuscript Institution (YEK) and Islamic Research Center (ISAM), 2 vols.

Lubāb al-Uṣūl by Ibn Nujaym. 4 vols.

[2019]  Kashf al-Asrār wa-Ḥatk al-Astār by al-Safadī.

[2018] 

Ādāb al-Muftī by Muḥammad Fikhrī al-ʿAynī.

Taqrīb al-Gharīb by Ibn Quṭlūbughā.

Sharḥ Sūrat al-Fātiḥa wa-baʿḍ Sūrat al-Baqarah by ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilmisānī.

Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Asmāʾ al-Ilāhiyya by ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilmisānī.

Review the study section of the facsimile manuscript printing of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.

al-Tashīl Sharḥ Laṭāʾif al-Ishārāt by Ibn Qāḍī Samāwinah.

al-ʿAqāʾid al-Rukniyya by Rukn al-Dīn al-Samarqandī.

Lubāb al-Kalām by al-Usmandī.

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

• Languages: Arabic (native); English (fluent); Turkish (fluent)
• Tools: Manuscript palaeography; text-critical methods; project management