Ali Erbaş


Ali Erbaş is a Turkish Muslim scholar and president of Directorate of Religious Affairs in Turkey.

Education

Erbaş attended elementary school in Yeşilyurt, and graduated from the Imam Hatip School in Sakarya in 1984.
Erbaş received a master degree at the Marmara University in 1987, and achieved a PhD in the Department of History of Religions in 1993 at the same university.

Professional career

In 1993 he was nominated lecturer at the Theological Faculty of the Sakarya University.
Then he carried out studies in his field as a guest member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Strasbourg for a full year as of the beginning of the academic year 1996-1997.
He returned to Turkey at the beginning of 1997-1998 academic year and became Associate Professor in November of 1998 and professor in the January of 2004.
In 2016 he was nominated as the rector of the Yalova University.
Ali Erbaş was appointed President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs in September 2017.
Ali Erbaş is married and has four children.