İbrahim Kalın

İbrahim Kalın


1st Turkish Presidential Press Secretary
Incumbent
Assumed office December 11, 2014
President	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Personal details
Born	İbrahim Kalın 1971 Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater	Istanbul University

İbrahim Kalın^[1] (born 1971) is assistant to the Turkish President and the current Press Secretary in the Turkish Presidential Complex. 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: 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

External links

Political offices
Preceded by New title	Turkish Presidential Press Secretary 2015–present	Incumbent

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