Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
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H.E. Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, born 1943 in Cairo, Egypt, is a Turkish academic for history of science and currently Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which consists of 57 member states in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, making it one of the world’s largest intergovernmental organisations.
İhsanoğlu studied science at the Ain Shams University in Cairo, receiving his BSc in 1966. He obtained his MSc in 1970 from the same university and his PhD from the Faculty of Science at the Ankara University in 1974.
He was founder and chairman of the Department of History of Science at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University from 1984 to 2000. His special interest focuses on culture and scholarship in the Islamic world. He was lecturer and visiting professor at various universities like University of Exeter, United Kingdom (1975-1977), Ankara University, Faculty of Science (1970-1980), Inönü University, Malatya (1978-1980), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany (2003).
[edit] Honorary doctorates
- 1994 Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1996 Dowling College, Long Island, New York, USA
- 2000 Academy of Science of Azerbaijan Republic
- 2001 University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2001 University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2004 Tatarstan Academy of Science
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