Assist. Prof. Dr. Bülent Bilmez is a lecturer in the History Department of Istanbul Bilgi Univer... more

Assist. Prof. Dr. Bülent Bilmez is a lecturer in the History Department of Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. He has a Ph.D. from the Institute of Modern Near Eastern Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (1998). Before starting his career in the current university in 2005 he had taught at Free University in Berlin, in Germany, Alexander Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include the theories of (under)development, modernization and imperialism; socio-economic, intellectual and political modernization processes in the late Ottoman Empire, in general; and history of the construction of national identities and nation-states among its Muslim communities, especially. less