Abdulhamit KirmiziAbdulhamit Kirmizi is Professor of History at Marmara University, Turkey, and Senior Research Scientist at University College Dublin, Ireland. He previously taught at Istanbul Sehir University and Bamberg University i Germany, and has held fellowships at the British Academy (SOAS, University of London) and CAS Sofia, Bulgaria. His research focuses on auto/biography, bureaucracy, and historiography, and he has published extensively on lives, administration, and politics in the modern Ottoman Empire Read More Read Less