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Biography

Dr. Recep Şentürk is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at HBKU. He was the former Founding President of Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul (2017–2021). Dr. Şentürk holds a PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Sociology, and specializes in Civilization Studies, Sociology, and Islamic Studies with a focus on social networks, human rights, and modernization in the Muslim world. 

He served as a researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) in Istanbul, and as Founding Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. He is Head of the International Ibn Khaldun Society, and has a seat on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals. Among his books are, in English: Narrative Social Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505; and in Turkish: Open Civilization: Towards a Multi- Civilizational Society and World; Ibn Khaldun: Contemporary Readings; Malcolm X: Struggle for Human Rights; and Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505. Dr. Şentürk’s work has been translated to Arabic, Japanese, and Spanish.

 

Experience

Dean

CIS, HBKU

2022 - Present

President

Usul Academy, Chicago

2021 – Present

Professor

Sociology Department, Ibn Haldun University

2017 – Present

Founding President

Ibn Haldun University

2017 - 2021

Founding Director General and Dean of Graduate Studies

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Alliance of Civilizations Institute

2011 - 2017

Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Faculty

Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Online Division (AIO)

2005 - 2007

Visiting Scholar

Oxford Brookes University, School of Social Sciences and Law

2005

Founding Director General

Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR)

2008 - 2017

Dean

Alfred University, Istanbul Campus, School of Arts and Sciences

2007 - 2008

Research Fellow

Rensellear Polytechnic Institute

2004 - 2005

Fellow

Ford Foundation, Middle East Research Competition (MERC)

2003 - 2005

Consultant, Future of Shariah Project

Emory University, School of Law

2003 - 2004

Fellow

Emory University, School of Law

2002 - 2004

Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow

TDV Islamic Research Center, ISAM, Istanbul

1998 - 2007

Data Analysis Consultant

Columbia University, Electronic Data Services

1995 - 1997

Teaching Assistant

Columbia University, Department of Sociology

1992 - 1994

Assistant Instructor

Istanbul University, Department of Sociology

1987 - 1989

Visiting Scholar

Ain Al-Shams University

1986 - 1987

Education/Academic qualification

Sociology, PhD, Columbia University

… → 1998

Sociology, Master, Columbia University

… → 1991

Sociology, Master, Istanbul University

… → 1988

Religion and Pedagogy, Bachelor, Marmara University

… → 1986

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