Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Post-Doc, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Assist. Prof.

About

I was born in Turkey and educated in Germany where I received a PhD in History from the Ruhr University of Bochum (2004). I spent a year at SOAS in London (1999-2000), taught at the Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi in Istanbul (2005-2006) and held a post-doctoral position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Israel from 2006-2008. From 2008-2009 I was senior fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University (RCAC), Istanbul, working on the Nusayris in the late Ottoman Empire. From 2009 to 2011 I was assistant professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the University of Erfurt, Germany where he was continuing his research on the Nusayris. As of 1 March 2012 I am visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Among his publications are: - “‘The Eternal Enemy of Islām’: Abdullah Cevdet and the Baha’i Religion”, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (68/1, 2005), 1-20. - “Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Reformers, Babis and Baha’is” (revised PhD thesis); Isis Press: Istanbul, 2008; - “Süleyman Nazif’s ‘Open Letter to Jesus’: An Anti-Christian Polemic in the Early Turkish Republic”, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6, 851–865, November 2008, and "Fighting for the Nusayri Soul: State, Protestant Missionaries and the 'Alawis in the Late Ottoman Empire", in: Die Welt des Islams 52/1.