Ali Erbaş

Ali Erbaş ( Arabic علي أرباش ) ( born in 1961 in Yeşilyurt, Ordu Turkey)[1] He is a Turkish Muslim scholar and Minister of Religious Affairs in Turkey

Education

Erbaş attended elementary school in Yeşilyurt, and graduated from the Imam Hatip School in Sakarya in 1984.[1]

Erbaş received a master degree at the Marmara University in 1987, and achieved a PhD in the Department of History of Religions in 1993 at the same university.[1]
Professional career

Professional career

In 1993 he was nominated lecturer at the Theological Faculty of the Sakarya University.

Then he carried out studies in his field as a guest member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Strasbourg for a full year as of the beginning of the academic year 1996-1997.

He returned to Turkey at the beginning of 1997-1998 academic year and became Associate Professor in November of 1998 and professor in the January of 2004.

In 2016 he was nominated as the rector of the Yalova University[2]

Ali Erbaş was appointed President of the Directorate of Religios Affairs in September 2017.[2]

Ali Erbaş is married and has four children.[2]

References
  1. "Prof Dr. Ali ERBAŞ". Diyanet. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  2. "Professor Ali Erbaş appointed as Turkey's new top religious official". Daily Sabah. 2017-09-16. Retrieved 2020-05-21.


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