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Celâl Şengör

People Living

جلال شنغور

Istanbul

Turkish geologist (born 1955 at Istanbul), among the leading tectonicists of his generation. Educated at Robert College and the State University of New York at Albany, where he took his PhD in 1982, he became a professor at Istanbul Technical University and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and many other academies. He writes a weekly column in Cumhuriyet and is known for his repeated public declarations that he is an atheist — in 2022 the Presidency of Religious Affairs complained about his televised remarks on the prophets of the scriptures and the prosecutor summoned him to testify.

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Roles
Scientist · writer
Region
Anatolia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

In space

Istanbul

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Place in the story

    atheist-or-sceptic (self-identified)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years

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    Born in
    Istanbul
    Lived in
    Istanbul

    People and things also explored

    Arap Camii, Istanbul· Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque, Istanbul· Eski Imaret Mosque· Eyüp Sultan Mosque· Fenari Isa Mosque· Gul Mosque, Istanbul· Hagia Sophia· Hirami Ahmed Pasha Mosque, Istanbul

    Sources

    • Celâl Şengör — English Wikipedia
    • Celâl Şengör — Turkish Wikipedia
    • Celâl Şengör — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Celâl Şengör — Wikidata
    • Science Academy statement on Celâl Şengör's summons (2022)
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Celâl Şengör”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/celal-sengor/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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    Arap Camii, Istanbul

    Draft card for Arap Camii (the Arab Mosque) in Galata, Istanbul, the former Latin church converted to a mosque and known for its pier-supported minaret; per the cited architecture survey, the page not yet checked.