İbrahim Kalın

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İbrahim Kalın

İbrahim Kalın (born September 15, 1971 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish Islamic theologian , historian of the history of Islamic philosophy and spokesman and advisor to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . Kalin is married and has three children.

Academic work

He received his BA from the University of Istanbul , his master's degree from the International Islamic University in Malaysia , and his Ph. D. from George Washington University in Washington, DC Kalin is a fellow of Prince al-Walid-bin Valley Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding , Georgetown University in Washington, DC , the oldest Roman Catholic, Jesuit- led university in the United States. He taught at the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts .

2007 was one of the signatories of the open letter A common word between us and you to the "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ... ). The 2009 volume of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World was edited by Kalin with John L. Esposito . He counted in 2011 to members of the Muslim delegation at the second Catholic-Muslim Forum of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought). In 2012, he was included in the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan . He is one of the Senior Fellows of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and was one of the signatories of the Amman Message ( Amman Message ).

Kalın was the founder and from 2005 to 2009 director of the government-affiliated conservative think tank SETA (Foundation for Politics, Economy and Social Research) in Ankara, with a branch in Washington, DC being opened in 2009 .

His work as an academic focused on the history of Islamic philosophy, Turkish foreign policy and the relationship between Islam and the West.

Political offices

In May 2009, Kalın Ahmet Davutoğlu took over the post of chief foreign policy advisor to then Prime Minister Erdoğan. After Erdoğan became president, he appointed Kalın to the post of deputy general secretary of the presidential office and its spokesman.

Works (selection)

  • 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 ).
  • 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.
  • with John L. Esposito : Islamophobia. The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
  • War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad , ed. v. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad , İbrahim Kalın & Mohammad Hashim Kamali . 2013 ( MABDA English Monograph Series )

See also

Web links

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English:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ time.com & sophiajournal.com ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ cf. washingtonpost.com: $ 20 million Saudi Gift is Questioned (Valerie Strauss)
  3. ↑ yale.edu (Online; PDF; 4.8 MB)
  4. ↑ thecanadiancharger.com “Influence in the Muslim world is derived from two sources: scholarship, and respect and trust,” Profs Esposito and Kalin explain, “Scholars are able to educate the masses or give respected opinions, and respected and trusted persons carry the weight of social and historical capital as leaders in their societies. "
  5. ^ Acommonword.com: Delegations to the 'Second Muslim-Catholic Forum'
  6. ↑ The Muslim 500  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.scribd.com  
  7. ^ Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research / Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştırmaları Vakfı (SETA) - s. a. trtdeutsch.com: SETA evaluates Turkey: US think tank puts Turkish foreign policy on the table
  8. ↑ setadc.org ( Memento from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) "The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) at Washington, DC is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, independent, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC dedicated to innovative studies on national, regional, and international issues concerning Turkey and US-Turkey relations. "
  9. ^ Günter Seufert: Foreign policy and self-image. The social foundation of strategy changes in Turkey. June 2012, Berlin (PDF)
  10. ↑ Davutoğlu'nun yerine öğrencisi , Milliyet, May 22, 2009.
  11. ↑ İbrahim Kalın, cumhurbaşkanlığı sözcüsü oldu , Milliyet, December 11, 2014.
İbrahim Kalın (alternative names of the lemma)
Ibrahim Kalin; İbrahim Kalın; Ibrahim Kalın
personal data
SURNAME Kalın, İbrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalin, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish Islamic theologian, history of philosophy and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 15th September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul