Abdullah Özçelik

Abdullah Özçelik

He is a research assistant in the Department of Islamic Economics and Finance at Sakarya University. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral studies in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the same university. In his doctoral thesis, he examined the idea of “progress” in Islamist thought during the Second Constitutional Period of the Ottoman Empire. In his current research, he focuses on state-building, institutional development, and regional dynamics in African countries, addressing these topics within a historical and comparative framework in relation to the political experiences of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.