Navid Chizari is an Assistant Professor at Ibn Haldun University in Turkey specialized in Islamic Theology (kalām) and lecturer at the IKAN Sultanahmet Madrasa program. He conducted research as a Research Assistant at the University of Münster, Germany (August 2020 - June 2023), developed and taught Arabic to KS5 students at Kuzey Almanya İslam Toplumu (2013-2016), and was a an Arabic tutor at the University of Osnabrück, Germany (2013-2014).

His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the Ibn Haldun University (2018-2023), a Masters degree in Arabic/Islamic Studies from the University of Münster (2015-2018) with a year abroad at the UTM University Malaysia, a Bachelor degree in Islamic Theology from the University of Osnabrück (2012-2015), and classical training in the Islamic Sciences from IKAN (2018-2023).

Notably, he received the Ibn Haldun Scholarship (2018-2022) and the Avicenna Scholarship (2014-2017).

• Work experience
  Lecturer at Sultanahmet Madrasa (Türkiye)
  Research Assistant at University of Münster (Germany)
  Teacher at B.I.G. Nord (Germany)
   
• Education and Training
  Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, Ibn Haldun University (Türkiye)
  M.A. in Arabic/Islamic Studies, University of Münster (Germany)
  B.A. in Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück ( Germany)
   
• Publications
  “Analyse der islamischen Psychologie: Eine Gegenüberstellung der IP-Literatur und klassischen-islamischen Texten,” in Islamintegrierte Psychotherapie und Beratung, ed. I. Rüschoff & P. Kaplick 
  (Gießen: Psychosozial- Verlag, 2021).
  
  “Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer,” in Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8 / 2 (2020), 460-487.
  
  “Determining Taftāzānī’s madhhab: Insights after the Decline Paradigm.” darulfunun ilahiyat: -. https://doi.org/10.26650/di.2023.34.2.1296825
  
  Classification for the books of Islamic Theology” (article)
  Co-authored with Dr. Hamza al-Bakri
  [submitted for review]