Mehmet Bulut

Mehmet Bulut is an author and economic historian whose research focuses on Ottoman institutions, cash waqfs, long-term development, and commercial relations with Europe. Ottoman-Dutch Economic Relations in the Early Modern Period 1571-1699 grows from his Utrecht doctoral research and reconstructs diplomacy, trade, and institutional contact across the seventeenth century. Cash Waqfs in Ottoman Europe turns to endowed funds that supplied credit and supported social purposes within regional economies. The Ottoman World and the Western Economy: Civilization, Economics and Ethics broadens the frame toward economic ideas and moral assumptions. Ottoman-Dutch Economic Relations provides the sustained historical argument; Cash Waqfs in Ottoman Europe offers a narrower institutional route.