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Abdul Metin Çelikbilek was born in 1988 in the village of Evrenpaşa (Özbek), located in the Ceylanpınar district of Şanlıurfa. In 2011, he graduated from the History Department of the Faculty of Science and Letters at Eskişehir Osmangazi University. In 2016, he earned his master’s degree from the Department of History at the Institute of Social Sciences, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Halim Demiryürek, with a thesis titled “Modernization Efforts in Afghanistan: 1834–1919.” In 2016, he began his doctoral studies in the Department of General Turkish History at the Faculty of Language, History, and Geography, Ankara University. In 2022, he completed his doctoral studies with a dissertation titled “Mongol Social Structure According to the Chingiz-namas,” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Saadettin Yağmur Gömeç and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sefer Solmaz. Abdul Metin Çelikbilek, who served as a Research Assistant in the Department of History at Selçuk University’s Faculty of Letters from 2017 to 2022, was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the General Turkish History Division of the Department of History at Selçuk University’s Faculty of Letters in March 2024. Abdul Metin Çelikbilek, who continues to serve at the same university, has authored books, book chapters, articles, and published international and national conference papers.
Major Works:
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, Afganistan'da Modernleşme Çabaları (1834-1919), Demavend Yay., İstanbul 2023.
Son Bozkurt Mustafa Abdulcemil Kırımoglu Armaganı, Ed. Saadettın Yagmur Gömeş, Sonay Ünal, Abdul Metin Çelikbilek, Türker Pınar Yigit, Berikan Yay., Ankara 2023.
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, Çingizin Moğolları, Selenge Yay., İstanbul 2025.
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, “Çingiz-nâmelerin Ortaya Çıkışı ve Türk Mogol Tarihi Açısından Önemi Tarihte”, Tarihte Türkler ve Moğollar, Ed. Kürşat Yıldırım, Bigeoğuz Yay., İstanbul 2023.
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, “Çingiz Kagan’a Karşı İlk İsyan: 1216 Hoyin İrgen (Ormanlı Boylar) İsyanı”, Genel Türk Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi, C. 5, S. 10, s. 465-474.
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, “Afgan Kralı Amanullah Han’ın Türkiye Ziyareti (1928)”, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, S. 59, s. 1-40.
Çelikbilek, Abdul Metin, “Çingiz-nâmelerde Ormanlı Boylar (Hoyin İrgen)”, Türk Tarihinin Deli Kurtu Atsız’a Armağan, Haz. Saadettin Yağmur Gömeç, Berikan Yay., Ankara 2024.
Gömeç, Saadettin Yağmur, Abdul Metin Çelikbilek, Sonay Ünal, “Oguz Kagan Destanı’na Göre Bazı İran ve Horasan Şehirleri”, Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi, Vol 7, S. 1, s. 150-194.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Boydak is a faculty member at the Department of Turkish Islamic Arts History at the Faculty of Theology at Selçuk University.
Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Tarihi Lisansüstü Programı'nda Profesör olarak çalışmaktadır. Selçuklu ve Osmanlı Mimarisi ile ortaçağ kozmolojisi üzerine dersler vermektedir. Çok sayıda ulusal ve uluslararası dergide yayınlanmış makaleleri ve editörlüğünü yaptığı kitapları bulunan bir sanat ve mimarlık tarihçisidir. Türkiye'de ortaçağ mimarisinde sembolizm üzerine yaptığı araştırmalarla İslâmî dönemde, ortaçağ Anadolu'sundaki mimari sembollerin anlamlarını ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca İstanbul'daki Nur-u Osmaniye gibi on sekizinci yüzyıl yapılarını inceleyerek yayımlamıştır. Zigetvar Sultan Süleyman Türbesi arkeolojik kazısında koordinatör olarak görev yapmıştır. İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi'nden Sanat Tarihi alanında doktora, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nden Tarih alanında yüksek lisans ve İstanbul Üniversitesi'nden sanat tarihi alanında lisans derecesi almıştır. Ali Uzay Peker, Türk Tarih Kurumu Bilim Kurulu üyesi, çeşitli akademik dergilerde bilim ve yayın kurulu üyesi, deneyimli bir eğitimci, yönetici ve proje koordinatörü, Marie Curie proje hakemi ve Bologna uzmanıdır.
My name is Rustam Shukurov, and I am an Orientalist and Byzantinist by training. I earned my academic degrees — Doctor, Doctor habilitatus and Professor in Medieval history — at the History Faculty of Moscow State University in Russia. I worked there as a teacher and researcher for more than thirty years, from 1990 until 2023. At present, I am a researcher at the Byzantine Department of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Over the course of these decades, I have participated in a number of major projects and developed research interests that revolve around the history and culture of Byzantium and its Asian neighbours in their wider setting. I am particularly drawn to the later Byzantine period, to Christian–Muslim relations between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, to the history of Seljuk Anatolia and Mongol Iran, to the early Ottomans, and to the Black Sea world.
In particular, I have published three monographs. The first, titled The Grand Komnenoi and the Orient, appeared in 2001. It traced the political and social connections between the Empire of Trebizond and the Orient. The second, The Byzantine Turks, published by Brill in 2016, introduced the concept of “Byzantine Turks” and examined their place within the late Byzantine world. My most recent book, Byzantine Ideas of Persia, published by Routledge in 2024, focused on the presence of Persia in Byzantine religiosity, culture, and society, and placed it within the framework of Byzantine cultural memory.
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