He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University in 1985. He studied Arabic and finished his master's thesis in Philosophy at Jordan University and took his Ph.D. from Marmara University in Islamic Philosophy area in 2001. He taught Islamic Philosophy and Muslim Thought courses at Marmara University, Middlebury College USA, and the University of Jordan. He was the chairman of MEDAM (Civilization Studies Center) and lectured at Bahcesehir University. He worked as a senior analyst at Aljazeera Center for studies in Qatar for six years.  He was the director of The Social Sciences Institute and head of the Philosophy Department at Ibn Haldun University. Currently, he is a professor of philosophy at Ibn Haldun University.