Yusuf Ziya Yorukan and his studies in the field of Islamic History

Yusuf Ziya Yörükân is an impotant scholar who lived in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the early periods of the Republic. His studies are important as he is one of the faculty members of Ankara University Faculty Divinity, which was established for the first time in Turkey. Yörükân, who is an expert in many basic fields of the Faculty Divinity, attracts attention with his works in the field of Islamic History and Sirah. In our research, the works that have survived to until new from the works written in the 1920s until today, were examined by applying literature consulting, examination, data collection, comparison of the collected data, classification and analysis methods. Necessary comparisons were made with the basic sources of Islamic History and the obtained data were classified and explained. In terms of the subject of our study, the two works of Yusuf Ziya Yörükân that we benefited from the most are; his books titled as the History of the Islamic Religion from Muhammad's Birth to His Death and Our Prophet. It has been determined that Yusuf Ziya Yörükân brought an original work describing the life of the Prophet to the history of Islam and that he approached the events in Islamic history from a unique perspective according to the period in which he lived. Key Words: Yusuf Ziya Yorukan, History of Islam, The Prophet Muhammad, Prophet, Theology