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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. He is listed among the world’s 500 most influential Muslims in the annual publication The Muslim 500. 

Dr. Şentürk has publications in English, Turkish, and Arabic. His works have been translated into such languages as French, Japanese, Malayalam, Urdu, and Spanish. His publications include Adamiyyah: I Am Therefore I Have Rights and Duties, Semiotics of Nature; Recharging Nature with Meaning for Environmental Ethics and Action, Futuwwah: Noble Character, Malcolm X: The Struggle For Human Rights, Comparative Theories and Methods between Uniplexity and Multiplexity, Narrative Social Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505,and Modernization and Societal Sciences in the Muslim World.