Dr. Mehmet Bulgen

Dr. Mehmet Bulgen is a professor at the Faculty of Theology, Marmara University, Istanbul. He received his PhD in Kalam from the Institute of Social Science at Marmara University in 2013. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University, Canada, in 2014 and Syracuse University, the US, in 2019. His current research projects include Kalam and language relationships and the possible impacts of artificial intelligence on religion. Dr. Bulgen has several books, including Kalam Atomism and Contemporary Cosmology, Criticisms of Kalam Atomism in Classical Islamic Thought, and The Object Theory of Kalam: Body, Motion, and Causality in al-Juwaynî.