Nurullah Ardıç is a professor of sociology at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He received his PhD from the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) in Sociology (2009). His research focuses on religion and politics in the Middle East, sociology of Muslim societies, and social theory, using historical-comparative and discourse analysis methods. He has published articles in the Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, IJMES, Asian Journal of Social Science etc. Full list of publications on researchgate /Nurullah-Ardic