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BSF'S STAFF

Dr. Sevba Abdula

Director at Fettah Efendi Research Center

Editor at IDEFE Publication

Academic Board at Centre of Academy Skopje

Director at Balkan Studies Foundation

ABOUT

Dr. Sevba Abdula

Sevba Abdula was born in 1984 in Skopje. In 2008, he completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Ankara University. He obtained his master’s degree from Istanbul University in Political Science and International Relations with a thesis titled “Religion and Nationalism: The Case of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Nationalism.” In 2022, he earned his PhD from Marmara University’s Institute of Social Sciences by defending his dissertation titled “Power, History, and Identity: The Narration of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires in Serbian Historiography and History Textbooks.” He has served as the founding president of the Fettah Efendi Association and the Balkan Studies Foundation. His research focuses on modernization in the Balkans, church-state relations, political history, ideologies, and the thought of Abdülfettah Rauf. He is married and the father of Elif Hanne and Ahmed Arif.

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