Aslan was born on 7 November 1959 in
Bayburt,
Turkey. Aslan graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in
Esslingen, Germany in 1988. He studied pedagogy and political science at the
Universities of Tübingen and
Stuttgart from 1990 to 1992. In 1996, he received his doctorate for his research on the religious education of Muslim children in Austria and Germany. Aslan has been a professor of Islamic religious education at the
University of Vienna's Institute of Educational Science since 2008. ==Works==