Rajeev Kumar (PhD Candidate)
Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Ibn Haldun University (Turkey)
Rajeev Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University (IHU), Turkey. He also serves as a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature and a teaching fellow for World History Through Art and Literature in the Department of History at IHU, Istanbul, Turkey. Additionally, he is the managing editor of U-Talk Magazine and the founder of the Umran Green Perspective Foundation and Umran Green School.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in German Language and Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India, and a master’s degree in Civilization Studies from Ibn Haldun University. Before his academic career, he worked as a Project Manager for Integra Software Services in Pondicherry, managing publication projects for Springer, De Gruyter, Westermann, and Geographische Rundschau.
His areas of interest include Indic-Islamic literature, history and religions, civilizations, philosophy, culture, Bhakti-Sufi literature, as well as English and German literature. His research focuses on Bhakti-Sufi literature and history, with a specific emphasis on Kabir and the Kabirpanthis in India.