PROFESSOR DOCTOR

RECEP ŞENTÜRK

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES / Department of Sociology

recep.senturk@ihu.edu.tr

About

Short Biography

Prof. Dr. Recep Şentürk administer as the rector of Ibn Haldun University in Turkey between March 2017 and December 2021. Professor Şentürk holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 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. 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, Social Memory: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505. Dr. Şentürk’s work has been translated to Arabic, Japanese and Spanish.