ADVISORS
Recep Şentürk
Professor 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. Professor Şentürk’s work has been translated to Arabic, Japanese, and Spanish.
Professor Şentürk is an advisor for the Nonreligious Beliefs and Practices in Turkey (NBPT) research Project
Lori G. Beaman
Professor Lori G. Beaman is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change, and a Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa.
Her research interests include examining how nonreligious and religious people can coexist in an increasingly diverse and complex world; the concept of deep equality as an alternative to tolerance and accommodation in responding to religious diversity; and the idea of reclaiming enchantment as a way to reformulate our relationship with the environment and address issues of climate change and human/non-human animal relations.
Recent publications include The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse (Routledge, 2020) and “Reclaiming Enchantment: The Transformational Possibilities of Immanence” Secularism and Nonreligion (2021).
Professor Beaman is the international advisor for the Nonreligious Beliefs and Practices in Turkey (NBPT) research Project