Bryan Stanley Turner (born 1945), is a prominent sociologist of religion in the world of Islam and a well-known professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University. He is associate professor of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, member of the American Sociological Research Association, research team leader for the Religion Cluster at the Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Turner is founding editor of reputable journals like: Body & Society (with Mike Featherstone), Citizenship Studies, and Classical Sociology (with John O'Neill). So far he has authored and edited over 70 books and 200 articles, while lecturing at prestigious universities in England, Australia, Scotland, Germany, Holland, Singapore, and the United States. His research methodology is Hermeneutics, and he attempts to explore Islam through a mutual understanding. Turner is the author of prominent books in the field of social theory and sociology, the sociology of religion (particularly Islam) and orientalism and globalism. Some of his books have been translated to Persian, including: Weber and Islam, Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism, A Theory of Catastrophe, and Max Weber: From History to Modernity.