Ibn Haldun University () or abbreviated as IHU, is a

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foundation university located in

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. The university has a strong focus on the

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and

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, and espouses a multilingual approach to education, namely in

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and

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History

IHU was established by the Turkish Youth and Education Service Foundation, set up by

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in 1996 when he was Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The current rector is Prof. Dr. Atilla Arkan, who took over from his predecessor, the founding rector and president of IHU, Prof. Dr.

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in 2021. In December 2019, IHU set up a four year project to improve the understanding of the work of

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. It also held a seminar to celebrate the work of

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Campus

The university is located in Başakșehir, in the western outskirts of

, where a new campus opened in the fall of 2020. It also has a campus besides the

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, which houses the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (

: ''MEDIT'') and

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department.

Schools

* School of Law * School of Business * School of Education * School of Islamic Studies * School of Communication * School of the Humanities and Social Sciences The various languages of instruction of Ibn Haldun University are

, and

, and are under the remit of the School of Languages.

Academic activities

The school of humanities and social sciences include the following departments: * Department of History * Department of Sociology * Department of Economics * Department of Psychology * Department of Comparative Literature * Department of Political Science and International Relations

Institutes of the University

* ''Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü'' (

: Alliance of Civilizations Institute) * Educational Science Institute * Social Sciences Institute

Notable faculty

— Turkish sociologist *

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— German historian *

Halil Berktay Halil Berktay (born August 27, 1947) is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily ''Taraf''. Life and career Halil Berktay was born in İzmir into an intellectual Turkish communist family. Both of his parent ...

— Turkish historian *

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References

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