Recep Bayyiğit, completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul University Faculty of Theology between 2013-2018. In 2018, he started his master's degree at Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences / Sociology of Religion. After he started to work as a research assistant at Social Sciences University of Ankara, Faculty of Islamic Sciences, he tranferred to the same program ASBU Institute for Islamic Studies. He graduated from his master's degree in 2021 with his thesis titled "Historical Aspects of Islamophobia". Continuning his studies on Islamophobia, Islam and Politics, Religious Identities, Orientalism, Bayyiğit continues PhD education at ASBU Institute for Islamic Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences / Sociology of Religion.

Islamophobia, Islam and Politics, Religious Identities, Orientalism