Ibrahim Kalin

Ibrahim Kalin, Assoc. Prof., is Presidential Spokesperson, Ambassador, Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency and Special Adviser to the President of Turkey. He served as Assistant Undersecretary of State and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey. Dr. Kalin is the founding-director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research based in Ankara, Turkey and served as its director from 2005 to 2009. He is a fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.
He received his Ph. D. from the George Washington University. As a broadly trained scholar of philosophy and Islamic studies, he has taught courses on Islamic philosophy, comparative philosophy, Islam-West relations and Turkish foreign policy. His field of concentration is post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy with research interests in comparative philosophy and Muslim-Christian relations. He has served as spokesperson for A Common Word, a major initiative to improve Muslim-Christian relations.
Dr. Kalin has published widely on Islamic philosophy, relations between Islam and the West and Turkish foreign policy. His publications include Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect and Intuition (Oxford University Press, 2010), Mulla Sadra (Oxford University Press,2013), and Akıl ve Erdem - Türkiye'nin Toplumsal Muhayyilesi (Reason and Virtue: Turkey’s Social Imagination) Küre Yayınları, 2014).
His book Islam and the West (published in Turkish) has won the 2007 Writers’ Association of Turkey award for best book. It has been translated into several languages including Albanian and Greek. Dr. Kalin is the editor of 2000’li Yıllarda Türk Dış Politikası (Turkish Foreign Policy in the 2000s) and Mulla Sadra The Book Of Metaphysical Penetrations (Brigham Young University Press, 2014). He is the editor-in-chief of the 2-Volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Dr. Kalin also co-edited with John Esposito, Islamophobia and the Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century, (Oxford University Press, 2011).
His interviews and columns have appeared in the Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Ahram, al-Jazeera Network and al-Arabiyya. He writes weekly columns in Daily Sabah.