Dr. Dilek Güldütuna graduated from the Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine and completed her residency in Anesthesiology at Koşuyolu Heart and Research Hospital. She finished a three-year Arabic program at the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences in Frankfurt, founded by Prof. Fuat Sezgin.
Between 2005 and 2011 she pursued Islamic Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, earning her PhD with the dissertation Konstruktionen des Weiblichen bei Ken’ân Rifâî: Das Weibliche als Spiegel der göttlichen Wirklichkeit (The Feminine as a Mirror of Divine Reality in Ken’an Rifâî). In the same university’s Department of Islamic and Religious Studies she completed an MA with the thesis Buchstabensymbolik bei Ibn ʿArabī (The Symbolism of Letters in Ibn ʿArabī). She currently teaches courses in Sufism at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Her research interests include symbolism; letter symbolism in Ibn ʿArabī; the role of women in Islamic Sufism; femininity and masculinity as symbolic categories; and the place of Islamic