Selim Deringil is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 academic, and professor of history at Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

, Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

.

Career

Deringil earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 in 1979, and joined Boğaziçi University the same year. He is a notable lecturer on Late Ottoman History, Ottoman Islam and relationships between Ottomans and Europe. He has lectured in the United States, England, France, Lebanon and Israel. He has written several essays on the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Fall of the Ottoman Empire

Some scholars argue the power of the Caliphate began waning by 1683, and without the acquisition of significant new wealth the Ottoman Empire went into a fast decline...

 and the history of the Republic of Turkey

History of the Republic of Turkey

The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican Parliament in 1922. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.-Single-party...

. His book "The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909" was awarded the "Turkish Studies Association Fuad Köprülü" prize in 2001.

Partial bibliography

• The Ottomans, the Turks, and world power politics : collected essays, ISBN 9754281793
• Turkish foreign policy during the Second World War : an "active" neutrality, ISBN 0521344662
• The well-protected domains : ideology and the legitimation of power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909, ISBN 1860643078

Further reading

(Review of "The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909")