Olivier Bouquet is professor of Ottoman history at Université Paris Cité and research fellow at the CESSMA (Centre for Social Sciences Studies on the African, American and Asian Worlds). He is the author of many books, including Les Pachas du Sultan (Peeters, 2007; Sultanın Paşaları, İş Bankası Yayınları, 2015), Les Noblesses du Nom. Essai d’Anthroponymie Ottomane (Brepols, 2013), Vie et Mort d’un Grand Vizir. Halil Hamid Pacha (Les Belles Lettres, 2022) and Pourquoi l’Empire Ottoman? (Gallimard, 2022).