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Zeyneb Sayilgan
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Zeyneb Sayilgan is the Muslim Scholar at Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, where her research centers mainly around Islamic theology and spirituality as articulated in the writings of Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1876-1960), and she promotes and researches Christian-Muslim relations and the intersection of religion and migration. Growing up in Germany as the daughter of Muslim immigrants from Türkiye, she holds a doctorate in theological and religious studies from Georgetown University. She is the host of the podcast On Being Muslim.