Kenan Rifai's Understanding of Women

"A Contemporary Sufi, Ken'an Rifai's Understanding of Women and Samiha Ayverdi" (pp. 174-189)

In Woman and Tasawwuf,Istanbul: Nefes Publications, 2008.

This book has been published by Turkish Women's Cultural Association in commemoration of late Samiha Ayverdi's 100th birth date. 

Conference on Rumi

Presented "From Rumi (1207-1273) To Kenan Rifai (1867-1950): Women in the Sufi Concept"

Conference titled: "Sehnucht nach dem andern Ende der Welt: Studientag zur Islamischen Mystik" and sponsored by:
- Dialog Forum zur Förderung des kulturellen Austausches und der Integration
- Christlich- Islamischer Dialog
- Haus am Dom

October 27, 2007
Frankfurt, Germany

Please click here to see the activities at Haus am Dom.

Following Muhammad

Translated Dr. Carl Ernst's Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2003) into Turkish with a Translator’s Foreword.

Hz. Muhammed’in Yolunda: İslâmiyeti Günümüz Dünyasında Yeniden Düşünmek, Istanbul: Okuyan Us Publishing House, April 2005.

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi


"Hüdayi Vakfının 17. yüzyıldaki Hizmetleri Çağdaş Sivil Toplum Örgütleri ile Karşılaştırılabilir mi?"

(Services of Aziz Mahmud Hudayi Foundation (Waqf) in the 16th and 17th Centuries as a Civil Society Organization),

Proceedings of Aziz Mahmud Hudayi Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2005. (In Turkish)

Kenan Rifai's Understanding of Women

"A Contemporary Sufi, Ken'an (Rifai) Buyukaksoy's Understanding of Women and Samiha Ayverdi"

(Çağdaş Mutasavvıf Ken'an (Rifai) Büyükaksoy'un Kadın Anlayışı ve Samiha Ayverdi)

Proceedings of Women and Tasavvuf Symposium, December 16, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.
(In Turkish)