Hasan Džilo was born in 1958 in Trebište, Mavrovo-Rostuša municipality, North Macedonia. He graduated from the Gazi Husrev Bey madrasa and the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo. He received his master's degree and doctorate in the field of medieval philosophy at the State University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. He was an assistant at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo, a professor at Isa-bey's madrasa, the director of Isa-bey's library and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mlada Mesečina" published by the Rijaset of the Islamic Community in Macedonia. He currently teaches Islamic philosophy and religious studies at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Skopje. He was a visiting professor at the High Islamic Institute in Bulgaria and at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Novi Pazar. He has published several books and over fifty scientific papers in the field of Islamic philosophy, Sufism and contemporary Islamic thought in relevant journals in English, Arabic and Bosnian. He also translated the Qur'an into the Macedonian language.