Hüseyin İlker Çınar is a theologian and Islamic scholar. He is a professor of Islamic Theology and founding director of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Intercultural Cooperation (IFIS&IZ) and the House of Culture for European Muslims (KUDEM) in Mannheim. Professor Dr. Çınar founded the KUDEM Children’s Library in Mannheim, which contains over 50,000 books in German, English, Turkish, Arabic and French. He established an academic library on Islamic Theology and founded the Al-Ghazzali Academy.

Professor Dr. Çınar advocates an interpretation of the Qur’an under consideration of the Qur’anic sciences utilizing a dynamic-rational approach that accounts for contemporary contextual preconditions and requirements, such as culture, location and time. Furthermore, he founded the institute’s own publishing house, IFIS&IZ Publications, which produces academic texts on Islamic Theology and Islamic Studies.