The Türkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) organized the “City Culture in the Islamic World” in Bursa, the first capital of the Ottoman Empire; the 8th International Student Symposium with the theme of “Scholars, Artifacts and Architecture”.
Bursa Governor Yakup Canbolat, General Manager of Türkiye Diyanet Foundation İzani Turan, Bursa Metropolitan Deputy Mayor Ahmet Yıldız, Uludağ University participated in the program held at Merinos Atatürk Congress and Culture Center with the support of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and cooperation of the Türkiye Diyanet Foundation and Uludağ University Faculty of Theology. Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Saim kılavuz, TDV Deputy General Manager Abdurrahman Çetin, Bursa Mufti and TDV Branch President Yavuz Selim Karabayır, as well as many speakers, guests, and students from Türkiye and abroad attended.
A total of 22 commentaries were presented in the symposium, which lasted 3 days in Bursa and consisted of an opening panel and 5 sessions. In the program, 4 doctorates, 9 master’s, and 9 undergraduate students from 10 different universities presented presentations. Eight of those students were TDV scholarship students. Thousands of students from 114 countries participated in the symposium.
During the symposium, several local and foreign students from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, and Algeria; and from Türkiye in Ankara, Amasya, Diyarbakir, Antalya, Çanakkale, and Bursa provided comprehensive information to the participants involved in the selected topics.
In the program, the cities that constitute the cultural basins of Islam; The geography and establishment process of the cities, their political history, the pauses or breaks that emerged as a result of the political events experienced, the demographic structure, economic situation, architectural and cultural life, the scientists who grew up in the cities, the scientific institutions established, the level of science produced in these scientific institutions, the works written Many subjects were explained, especially the schooling in cities, the effects of geographical features on the minds of scientists, the interaction between cultural basins, the routes of scientific journeys, and important monumental works.
The symposium, which was organized by the Türkiye Diyanet Foundation between 25-27 November to contribute to the development of undergraduate and graduate students and to gain experience in scientific activities, was completed with a historical trip to Bursa.
