İbrahim Kalın
| İbrahim Kalın | |
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| Turkish Presidential Press Secretary | |
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Assumed office December 11, 2014 | |
| President | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
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İbrahim Kalın 1971 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
İbrahim Kalın[1] (born 1971) is special adviser to Turkish President and the presidential spokesperson of Turkish President. He is also a senior fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University.[2]
Kalin received his B. A. from the University of Istanbul and Ph. D. from George Washington University.[3] From 2002 to 2005 he was a faculty member at the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.[2] From 2005 to 2009 he was the director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey.[2]
On December 11, 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that İbrahim Kalın would be the first official Turkish Presidential Press Secretary.
Selected works
- As author
- Knowledge as Light. Critical Remarks on M. Hairi Yazdi's Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence. In: American Journal of Islamic and Social Sciences. Vol. 16 (1999), pp. 85–97 (online).
- Islam and the West, 2007 (2007 Writers Association of Turkey award for best book)[3]
- Knowledge in later Islamic philosophy. Mullā Ṣadrā on existence, intellect, and intuition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.
- Islam in Turkey. Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.
- As editor
- with John L. Esposito: The 500 Most Influential Muslims annual, Amman, Jordan: Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 1st edition, 2009.[4]
- with John L. Esposito: Islamophobia. The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam, Oxford University Press, 2014.
- As contributor[3]
- MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd Edition
- MacMillan Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd Edition
- Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
References
- ↑ "İbrahim Kalın kimdir?" [Who is İbrahim Kalın?] (in Turkish). Habertürk. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- 1 2 3 Bio on the Georgetown University website
- 1 2 3 Bio at Oxford Islamic Studies
- ↑ "Book lists '500 Most Influential Muslims': Top 20 inclusions seem to be less convincing and dictated". Islamic Voice. December 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
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Turkish Presidential Press Secretary 2015–present |
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