Authors

• Sevba Abdula

  Balkan Studies Foundation

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-5832

  Author Biography

  Sevba Abdula was born in 1984 in Skopje. In 2008, he completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Ankara University. He obtained his master’s degree from Istanbul University in Political Science and International Relations with a thesis titled “Religion and Nationalism: The Case of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Nationalism.” In 2022, he earned his PhD from Marmara University’s Institute of Social Sciences by defending his dissertation titled “Power, History, and Identity: The Narration of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in Serbian Historiography and History Textbooks.” He has served as the founding president of the Fettah Efendi Association and the Balkan Studies Foundation. His research focuses on modernization in the Balkans, church-state relations, political history, ideologies, and the thought of Abdülfettah Rauf.He is married and the father of Elif Hanne and Ahmed Arif.

• Ahmet Köroğlu

  Istanbul University

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1350-7858

  Author Biography

  Ahmet Köroğlu holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Beykent University and earned both his Master’s and Ph.D. from Istanbul University. His doctoral research, titled 'Translations in the Formation of Islamist Discourse in Turkey,' offers a critical analysis of political ideology and discourse within the Turkish landscape. His research interests encompass political ideologies, Turkish political life, intellectual history, Islamic political thought, and postcolonial theory, areas in which he has published various academic works. Dr. Köroğlu has also played a pivotal leadership role in major initiatives, including the Turkish Islamic Journals Project and the Islamic Political Thought Projects. He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University.

• Fatih Şabani

  Trakya University

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1845-1411

  Author Biography

  Fatih Şabani graduated from the Faculty of Theology at Uludağ University in 2009. At the same institution, he completed his master’s studies in the field of Islamic Law. He completed his PhD in 2020 at the Department of Islamic Law at Marmara University. His academic interests primarily focus on Islamic Law and the Law of Uprisings, with a particular emphasis on Albanian uprisings during the Ottoman period. He is currently employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Theology, Trakya University.