Prof. İBRAHİM HİLMİ KARSLI

Biography

Prof. Dr. İbrahim Hilmi Karslı was born in 1961 in Güneysu, Rize. He completed his high school education at Istanbul Imam-Hatip High School in 1982. He started his higher education at Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine in 1983, but due to his intense interest in religious sciences, he left this faculty and completed his higher education at Ankara University Faculty of Divinity (1984-1988). In 1993, he graduated from Tunisia Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages (Arabic). He completed his master's degree in 1994 at Ankara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Tafsir and his doctorate in 2000 at Atatürk University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Tafsir. He became Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2012.

          He started his career as a research assistant and lecturer at the Faculty of Theology of Karadeniz Technical University (Rize) and continued at the same university (1994-2015), which changed its name (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University). In 2015, he transferred to Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Islamic Sciences.

         Between 2008-2020, he served as a member of the High Board of Religious Affairs of the Presidency of Religious Affairs for two terms. During this duty, he served as the Chairman of the Commission for Religious Publications, the Chairman of the Commission for the Review of Qur'anic Translations and the Editor of the Thematic Tafsir Project. Karslı was appointed as the Vice President of Religious Affairs on July 10, 2020. Karslı has 3 children.