• Columbia University, New York, NY
  Ph.D. in Sociology, 1998
  Thesis: Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network, CE 610-1505.
• Columbia University, New York, NY
  M.A. in Sociology, 1991
• Istanbul University, Istanbul
  M.A. in Sociology, 1988
  Thesis: Sociological Studies in Contemporary Egypt
• Marmara University, Istanbul
  Faculty of Theology, 1986