Slobodan Ilić was born 1961 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. After earning his degrees in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarajevo University (1986: BA Turkology-Iranistik, 1987: Arabistic-Turkology), and MA in Ottoman Studies at Belgrade University (1992), he completed his doctorate in Ottoman History 1996 at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg, Germany.  He taught in the Department of Oriental Studies at Sarajevo University (1988-1992), Department of History at Bilkent University, Ankara (1996-2003), Department of History at Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta (2003-2012), where he also served as the Department chair  (2004-2009), and the Department of History at the Near East University, Nicosia (since 2012). He is member of the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures, Cambridge, a member of the Executive Committee of the  International Association for Ottoman and Pre-Ottoman Studies (CIEPO), where he served also as the vice-president (2008-2018), and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Ottoman Social and Economic History (IAOSEH). He participated in more than 50 international conferences, has lectured and published widely on the intellectual history of the Ottoman Balkans and the history of Sufism in the Balkans and Anatolia, especially on its more heterodox varieties. He is contributor to the third edition of the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam.

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