İbrahim Kalın

İbrahim Kalın (born 1971) is a Turkish academic of Islamic philosophy who has directed the National Intelligence Organization since June 2023 ^{1 2}.

Kalın was born in Istanbul on 15 September 1971 into a family from Erzurum ^{1 3}. He read history at Istanbul University, took a master's at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and in 2002 received his PhD in Islamic studies from George Washington University under Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on Mulla Sadra's philosophy of existence, intellect and intuition ^{1 3}.

Kalın taught religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross (2002-2005), founded and chaired the SETA think tank (2005-2009), and later lectured at Ibn Haldun University, becoming a professor in 2020 ^{1 3}. His books include Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy (2010), İslam ve Batı (Islam and the West, 2007) and the edited Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam (2014); he also translated works of Toshihiko Izutsu and of the Shadhili-Darqawi master al-Arabi al-Darqawi into Turkish ^{1 2}. From 2009 he served the prime ministry and then the presidency as foreign-policy adviser and, from 2014, as presidential spokesperson and senior adviser to President Erdoğan ¹. On 5 June 2023 Erdoğan appointed him director of the National Intelligence Organization, succeeding Hakan Fidan ¹. He plays the bağlama professionally, sings and composes ¹. No text read for this record names a school or order for Kalın himself - his scholarship is his subject matter, and his Wikidata item gives only Islam generically - so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3 4}.

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