Head of the Institute of Islamic Thought, Prof. Mehmet Görmez is a professor working in the field of hadith and hadith methodology. Görmez obtained his BA from Ankara University Theology Department and completed his masters with the thesis titled ‘Musa Carullah Bigiyef, Hayatı, Fikirleri ve Eserleri’ (Musa Carullah Bigiyef, Life, Thoughts and Masterpieces.’ He then completed his PhD from the same university with a thesis titled ‘Sünnet ve Hadisin Anlaşılması ve Yorumlanmasında Metodoloji Sorunu’ (The Methodology Problem in Understanding Sunnah and the Hadith). His PhD was rewarded the Turkey Diyanet Foundation Islamic Research Leadership Prize. He worked at Ahmet Yesevi and Hacettepe University. Prof. Mehmet Görmez was head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs between 2010 and 2017.