Prof.Dr. Mürteza Bedir was born in 1968 in Sivas, Suşehri. She completed her undergraduate education at Marmara University Faculty of Theology in 1992. He started to work as a research assistant at Sakarya University in 1993 and went to England in 1994 to complete his graduate studies on behalf of the same university with a YÖK scholarship. She completed her MA (LLM, 1996) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), School of Law, University of London. He received his doctorate from Manchester University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Middle Eastern Studies with his thesis named “Early Development of Hanafi Legal Theory (Usul al-fiqh)” (1999). She started to work as an assistant professor at Sakarya University Faculty of Theology in 2000. In 2002-2003 academic year, she conducted research in this country with a scholarship from the Syrian Ministry of National Education. He became an associate professor of Islamic Law in 2005 and continued to work as an associate professor at Sakarya University until the end of 2010. In the 2007-2008 academic year, he conducted research as a visiting professor at Harvard University Law School. In January 2011, he started to work as a professor at the Faculty of Theology of Istanbul University, of which he is still a member. He has been serving as the dean of the same faculty since March 2013. Bedir, who was appointed as the Turkey representative of the International Fiqh Academy affiliated to the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 2015, was elected as a member of the DIB High Council of Religious Affairs in the same year. Murteza Bedir, who is married and has four children, speaks Arabic and English.

Murteza Badr's Bukhara Law School: 10-13. An Investigation in the Context of the Central Asian Foundation Law for Centuries, The Book of Sacrifice, Hz. The Prophet's Universal Message: Sunnah, Fiqh, Madhhab and Sunnah: The Prophet's Authority in Hanafi Fiqh Theory, as well as many translations, articles, communiqués and encyclopedia articles.