Metin ÖZDEMIR (Prof. Dr.), graduated from the Faculty of Theology of Ankara University in 1990 and started his master's program in the Department of Kalam-Islamic Philosophy of Social Sciences Institute of Ankara University in the same year. He completed his master's degree in 1994 in relation to “the Miraj of Prophet Muhammad”. He completed his doctorate in 1998 with a thesis titled “The problem of Evil in the Islamic Scholastic Theology”. In 1995, he was appointed as a research assistant to the Department of Basic Islamic Sciences in The Faculty of Divinity of Sivas Cumhuriyet University. In 1998 he became assistant professor and in 2004 associate professor. He became professor in 2009 (August 19). On 04.02.2013, he was transferred as a faculty member from the Cumhuriyet University to the Department of Kalam and History of Islamic Sects in the Faculty of Islamic Sciences of the Yıldırım Beyazıt University. Then, on 03/01/28, he was appointed as a faculty member to the Faculty of Religious Sciences of Ankara Social Sciences University. He is currently working as a faculty member in the same department. He has several books and articles on the problem of evil, human freedom, fate, and the defense of the Qur'an of Muʿtazila.

• The problem of evil in Islamic Theology
• Human freedom and fatalism
• Contemporary Kalam problems
• Defense of the Qur'an