Colin Imber is a lecturer in Turkish studies at Manchester University, UK.
He completed his Oriental studies at Cambridge University, where he defended his doctorate on "The Ottoman Fleet in the Age of Sultan Suleiman I (1520-1566)".
He is considered as "perhaps the leading, and...certainly the most productive, of the painfully few Ottoman historians currently working in British universities.
"[1] He is noted for his opposition to Paul Wittek's "Ghaza thesis".
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