Emrullah Astan (Assist. Prof., PhD) is a researcher whose work focuses on Islamic thought and Sufism. His academic studies are shaped around the historical and intellectual dimensions of the classical Sufi tradition, as well as its metaphysical, symbolic, and doctrinal elements. He particularly concentrates on the divine names in Sufi thought, conceptions of spiritual knowledge, and esoteric interpretive traditions.

He completed his undergraduate education in 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Gaziantep University. In 2021, he earned his master’s degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University with a thesis entitled “The Influences of Waḥdat al-Wujūd in Sultan Memdûh Tillovî’s Work Maḥzanu’l-Asrār.” Astan pursued his doctoral studies at Ankara Social Sciences University and obtained his PhD in 2025 with a dissertation supervised by Prof. Dr. Hayri Kaplan entitled “The Life, Works, and Sufi Thought of Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Būnī.”

His research primarily focuses on the life and intellectual world of Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad al-Būnī, the Sufi doctrines of Muḥyiddīn Ibn al-ʿArabī, interpretations of al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā, and the historical and intellectual foundations of the Sufi conception of knowledge referred to in classical sources as ʿulūm al-ḥawāṣṣ. Within this framework, he adopts an interdisciplinary approach that examines the relationships between metaphysical knowledge, symbolism, and spiritual authority in Sufi thought.

In addition, he works on manuscript texts, studying classical works of Sufi literature and analyzing their historical contexts and intellectual backgrounds.