With the Ibn Haldun Academy Awards, it was aimed to discuss and bring the chosen issue to the top of the agenda in our country and create new awareness among university students.
In the Ibn Haldun Academy Award Ceremony, which also drew great attention from the media, "2023 Ibn Haldun Academy Loyalty Award" is given to Calligrapher Hüseyin Kutlu, who got a thuluth-naskh script license from the late Calligrapher Hâmid Aytaç in 1974, and also practiced ta'lik with Uğur Derman Bey; for more than 50 years, he has dedicated his heart and life to the art of calligraphy and trained hundreds of students to transfer this art to the future in competent hands. Also, he prepared the "Istanbul Mushaf", which is considered as one of the most distinguished works of Turkish-Islamic art, in which he reinterpreted 10 different periods that have become ecole in this field in Islamic civilization.
The award of Calligrapher Hüseyin Kutlu was presented by our Chairman of the Board of Trustees Prof. Dr. İrfan Gündüz and our Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees Necmeddin Bilal Erdoğan.
Three of the Ibn Haldun Academy participants, who have produced original and qualified works around the theme of "Aesthetics" since January 2022, were deemed worthy of the 2023 Ibn Haldun Academy Incentive Award. In this context; Esra Dereli, with her miniature works in the "Artistic Work" category; Hatice Ebrar Akbulut, with her book "The Serenity of the Beautiful", in the category of "Book"; and Mustafa Sürün with his article titled “The Inscriptions of Mehmet Esad Yesari in Istanbul” published in the Journal of Islamic Studies in the category of “Academic Articles” were deemed worthy of the 2023 Ibn Haldun Academy Incentive Awards.
The awards were presented to the winners by our Rector Prof. Dr. Atilla Arkan.
Speaking at the Ibn Haldun Academy Award Ceremony, our Chairman of the Board of Trustees Prof. Dr. İrfan Gündüz said that all kinds of good work that is done to impress the one who sees or hears is included in aesthetics. Expressing that he believes that every Muslim has a diplomatic responsibility, Prof. Dr. Gündüz emphasized that whatever work is being done, it should be done well.
Our Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Necmeddin Bilal Erdoğan, also stated in his speech that the most successful students in Turkey generally choose the fields of medicine and engineering. Erdoğan said, "However, if we are going to talk about the issues of the society and find solutions to the problems of society, then the brightest minds among us must contemplate about these issues. We have experienced that from time to time in the history of Islam and we still read the books of scholars who produced important works at that time. Again, we need to increase the number of people who have this kind of idea, and Ibn Haldun University aspires to those young people."
Our Rector Prof. Dr. Atilla Arkan stated that they attach importance to three ideas as the mission of the university and said: "The first is to convey the historical background that builds identity and to protect and present it. This is undoubtedly the most important issue a university should do. The second is to understand deeply the problems of the world they live in, and the third is to prepare our students, institutions and state for the future, especially in this world where change is happening so fast.
In her opening speech, the academic coordinator of the Ibn Haldun Academy 2023 and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of IHU, Prof. Dr. Alev Erkilet underlined that with the Academy, which lasted for 6 weeks and was attended by hundreds of people both face-to-face and online, they brought the knowledge of our University to Turkiye and the experience of Turkiye to our University.
Ibn Haldun Academy Closing and Award Ceremony ended after the closing lecture of Calligrapher Hüseyin Kutlu titled "Mushaf Tradition in Islamic Civilization", after the presentation of plaques to the companies that sponsored the program.
