# Faik Bulut

Faik Bulut (born 1950, Kağızman, Kars) is a Kurdish journalist, historian, writer from Turkey. He speaks Turkish, Kurdish, English, Arabic and French.

## Biography

He graduated from Ankara Gazi University in 1980. He started journalism in 1985. He has authored near 40 books ever since. Currently he is a public commentator for foreign TV channels and publishing columns in Independent Turkish. His books have been cited 168 times since 2016 and 382 times since 1994 in peer-reviewed academic papers listed in Google Scholar.

## Views on Marco Polo

According to Faik Bulut, what Marco Polo wrote about Order of Assassins does not reflect the truth and what he told in his memoirs:
   Hasan Sabbah has turned a valley and has never been in it before. had turned it into a garden full of unseen fruits. The most elegant palaces and mansions imaginable were built in it. And there were gutters where wine, milk, honey and water flowed freely. There were many of the world's most beautiful female concubines who could play all kinds of musical instruments well and sing, dance to enchant the beholder, and they believed that the Muslims of these regions were Paradise.
According to Bulut all of the above claims are false, and the opinions of other scientists also support him in this regard. According to Bulut, it had been 15 years since Alamut Castle was destroyed by Mongols at the time Marco Polo claimed to have gone there. Bulut emphasizes that Polo's writings are only legends he heard from sailors while in prison in Italy.

## Journalism

As a journalist and political commentator, he has been publishing articles, participating interviews, attending TV & Radio shows, such as CNN, BBC, The Independent Turkish, DW, Sputnik News Turkey, referenced by many authors and post graduation thesis in Turkey and globally.

## Works

Faik Bulut researches on Alevism, Kurds, Palestine State and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Ottoman Empire, Middle East and Islamic History, Islamic Organizations, Secularism, History, Politics, Culture etc. Bulut has authored nearly 40 books and as a scholar he has an h-index of 11, i10-index of 12 while his books has been cited by academic articles and theses 382 times since 1994 according to Google Scholar.

### Alevism history

* Alevism without Ali, Berfin Publishing, 2011
* Hasan Sabbah Truth and Equalist Dervishan Republics, Berfin Publishing, 2014
* Islamic Communists: (Qarmatians)
* Abu Muslim Khorasani
* Whose Dormitory is Khorasan?
* How did We Come From Khorasan: The Road Story of Alevis, 2019

### Middle East

* Fading Colors of the Middle East (Yazidis, Circassians, Bedouins, Nusayris)
* Palestine Dream (Memoir)
* Palestine Intifada Lessons
* Sharia In The Shadow Algeria
* Iraq Invasion from Arab's Eyes

### Kurds

* Kurdish Revolts in the Eye of the State
* Kurds in the Turkish Press
* Seeking a Solution to the Kurdish Question
* Dersim Reports
* Three Rebellions in a Narrow Triangle: Ethnic Conflicts in Kurdistan
* Kurdish Diplomacy (2 volumes)
* History of the Kurdish Language
* By the Pen of Ahmede Xane: The Unknown World of the Kurds (Second place in the 1995 Musa Anter Research Award)

### Islamic and Islamic organizations

* Democracy in the State of Allah: A Critique of the Sharia Order (1993 Turan Dursun Research Award)
* Islamist Organizations (3 volumes)
* Turkish Army and Religion: Islamist Activities in the Eyes of the State (1826 - 2007)
* Code Name: Hezbollah
* Who is this Fethullah Gülen?
* The Rise of Sect Capital 1: Criticism of Islamic economics
* The Rise of Sect Capital 2: Where does the Sect Capital go?
* Secrets of Al-Qaeda
* Religion, Nationalism and Women Debates in Committee of Union and Progress (2 volumes)
* Islam in the Global Age 1: The Western world and Secularism, Cumhuriyet Books
* Islam in the Global Age 2: Woman and Hijab, Cumhuriyet Books
* Islam in the Global Age 3: Sharia and Politics, Cumhuriyet Books
* Sexual Spells in Islam