Mahmud Erol Kılıç

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Mahmud Erol Kılıç (2020)

Mahmud Erol Kılıç (* 1961 in Istanbul , Turkey ) is a diplomat , theologian and academic from Turkey.

Career

Mahmud Erol Kılıç at the Üsküdar University (2017)

Kılıç graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science in 1985 . In 1989 he received his Masters in Islamic Philosophy from Marmara University and in 1995 his PhD in Islamic Gnosis and Philosophy.

In 1987, Kılıç became editor-in-chief of İnsan Yayınları . In addition, there was an assistant professorship in the Faculty of Islamic Theology at Marmara University from 1988 to 1998, and an extraordinary professorship from 1998 to 2004. Kılıç has been a full professor since 2004. Since 2005 he has been President of the Museum of Islamic Antiquities in Istanbul and since 2006 Chairman of the Board of the Islamic Manuscript Association of the Center of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge . He was also the second general secretary of the Parliamentary Union of States of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (PUIC).

In 2018, Kılıç succeeded Mehmet Kadri Şander Gürbüz as the Turkish ambassador to Jakarta for Indonesia and East Timor . On February 20, 2020, Kılıç handed over his East Timor accreditation to President Francisco Guterres .

Awards

Kılıç's book Poetics of Ottoman Poetry was named Book of the Year in 2004 by the Turkish Authors' Association. In 1998 he received the Medal of Honor from Marmara University and in 2003 the Medal of Honor from Uludağ University in Bursa .

Others

Kılıç speaks Turkish, English, Arabic, Persian and can read French. He is married.

Since 1979 Kılıç has been wearing the black belt, first dan in karate .

Publications (selection)

  • Hermes and Hermetic Thought According to Muslim Thinkers , Istanbul 1987.
  • Idea and Levels of Existence , Istanbul 1997.
  • Poetics of Ottoman Poetry , Istanbul 2004; 9th print 2011.

Web links

Commons : Mahmud Erol Kılıç  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC): CV of Second Secretary General , accessed on March 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Foreign Ministry of East Timor: Sekretáriu jeral-MNEK iha Serimónia Entrega Karta Kredensiál hosi Embaixadores Naun-Rezidénsia. , February 20, 2020 , accessed on February 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kılıç, Mahmud Erol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kılıç, Mahmut Erol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish diplomat, theologian, academic and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey