Selim Deringil

Selim Deringil (born Ottawa, 19 August 1951) is a Turkish academic, and professor of history at Boğaziçi University and at the Lebanese American University.^[1]

Career

Deringil earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia 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 Palestine . He has written several essays on the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the history of the Republic of Turkey. 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 975-428-179-3
• Turkish foreign policy during the Second World War : an "active" neutrality, ISBN 0-521-34466-2
• The well-protected domains : ideology and the legitimation of power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909, ISBN 1-86064-307-8

References

1. "Faculty and Staff". Lebanese American University. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

Further reading

• De Bellaigue, Christopher (2001). "Turkey's Hidden Past". The New York Review of Books. 48 (4). (Review of "The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909")

• Ahmad, Feroz (1991). "Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War: An "Active Neutrality" by Selim Deringil". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 23 (3): 424–426. doi:10.1017/s0020743800057652. JSTOR 164500. S2CID 163504598.