Cebeci, Ismail

(Visiting Fellow, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School) Ismail Cebeci graduated from the Islamic Law department at Marmara University, Istanbul, in 1998. He completed his MA in the same department in 2001 with his paper on the “Sheikh al-Islams’ Fatwas in the Late Ottoman Period.” After studying Arabic literature in the graduate school at Marmara University for two years, he switched to the graduate program in Islamic Law at the same university in 2004, where he was awarded a PhD degree in 2010 with his dissertation, titled “A Critical Analysis of Murabaha Debates in Modern Islamic Economics.” During his graduate study, he spent one year at Syracuse University in New York, and two years at Jordan University in Amman, during which he took graduate-level classes on Islamic economics and fiqh al-muamalat. He also visited the Islamic Development Bank, the Albaraka main library, and the Majma’ al-Fiqh al-Islami in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He recently taught Islamic law and Islamic economics in Istanbul, Turkey. He also worked as a lecturer in Arabic at Marmara University. Since September 2010, he has been a visiting fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies where he has also been teaching Islamic Finance to graduate students.