diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a2404548f..eed7b1b7b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ if (LLAMA_BLAS)
         message(STATUS "BLAS found, Includes: ${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
         add_compile_options(${BLAS_LINKER_FLAGS})
         add_compile_definitions(GGML_USE_OPENBLAS)
+        if (${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS} MATCHES "mkl" AND (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "Generic" OR ${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "Intel"))
+            add_compile_definitions(GGML_BLAS_USE_MKL)
+        endif()
         set(LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS} ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
         set(LLAMA_EXTRA_INCLUDES ${LLAMA_EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 
diff --git a/ggml.c b/ggml.c
index 55b0aff03..c10877a76 100644
--- a/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml.c
@@ -247,7 +247,11 @@ inline static void* ggml_aligned_malloc(size_t size) {
 #include "ggml-opencl.h"
 #endif
 #elif defined(GGML_USE_OPENBLAS)
+#if defined(GGML_BLAS_USE_MKL)
+#include <mkl.h>
+#else
 #include <cblas.h>
+#endif
 #elif defined(GGML_USE_CUBLAS)
 #include "ggml-cuda.h"
 #elif defined(GGML_USE_CLBLAST)