Researcher
and writer (b. 1958, İstanbul). He has also written under pen names such as Ali
Kürek, Erhan Çam, Kemal Demir, Melih tezgör, Osman Konur and Suat Alaca. He
attended primary school in Ankara and completed his elementary education at
İstanbul Bakırköy High School. After having changed three faculties, he
graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of History (1985). He was
involved in theater as an amateur for a time then professionally. He worked as
a writer on Ana Britannica (Britannica) and various publications
and was history redactor on the encyclopedia Büyük Larousse (Great
Larousse).
He is
generally known for his works on the history of attitudes and especially on the
history of Islamic heterodoxy. He won the 2001 Writers Union of Turkey Novel
Award with his work İki ile Bir (Two
and One).
WORKS:
STUDY-RESEARCH: Tarih Heterodoksi ve Babaîler (History Heterodoxy and Babais*, 1990), Yeniçerilerin Bektaşiliği ve Vak'ayı Şerriye (Bektaşi Property of
the Janissaries and the Auspicious Incident, 1991), Günümüz Aleviliğinin Sorunları (Problems of Modern Alawism, 1991), Sabah Rüzgârı - Enel Hak Demişti Nesimî
(Morning Wind – I am the “Enel-Hak”* Said Nesimi, 1992), Dönüyordu - Bektaşilikte Zaman Kavrayışı (It was Turning – The
Concept of Time in the Bektaşi, 1993), İsmail
(İsmail, 1999), Son Yeniçeri (The
Last Janissary, 2000).
NOVEL: İki ile Bir (Two and One, 2001).
He has also translated from English.
