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Biography
He was born in 1984 in Istanbul/Fatih, Turkey. He completed his high school education in Kartal Anadolu Imam-Hatip high school (2003). In 2004 he moved to Çanakkale and graduated from the Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Theology (2008). In the same year he began Marmara University for graduate education. He completed his masters thesis entitled "Inclination Towards Shī‘īsm In Hadīth Rāwīs" (2010). Topgül worked as a researcher in "Center for Islamic Studies" (ISAM) (2012-2013). Then he was appointed as a research assistant at Marmara University Faculty of Theology (2013). He holds a PhD from Marmara University and his doctoral dissertation was entitled "Early Shī‘īte Ilm al-Rijāl (Science of Narration) (The Case of al-Kashshī)" (2015). He spent a year as a visiting scholar in Urbana-Champaign at University of Illinois (2018-2019).