Beyza Bilgin

Beyza Bilgin (5 May 1935, İzmir) Turkish theology professor.

After completing his primary and high school education in Karabük, Istanbul and Eskişehir respectively, he started Ankara University Chemical Engineering department. However, after a year he left this department and entered the Faculty of Theology. After completing his university education in 1960, he worked as a teacher at Imam Hatip High Schools in Yozgat and Ankara. While he was teaching in Ankara, he worked as an honorary preacher for women in some mosques. In 1965, he started working as an assistant at Ankara University Faculty of Theology. He became a doctor in 1971 with his thesis on Love as the Foundation of Education in Islam, an associate professor in 1979 with his thesis on Religious Education in Turkey and Religious Lessons in High Schools, and the first professor in the field of religious education in Turkey in 1988 with his thesis on Educational Science and Religious Education.