He is a research assistant in the Department of Islamic Economics and Finance at Sakarya University. He completed his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the same university. In his doctoral dissertation, he examined the concept of "progress" in Islamist thought during the Second Constitutional Era 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 alongside the political experiences of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.