Deringil earned his doctorate from the
University of East Anglia in 1979, and joined Boğaziçi University the same year. He is a notable lecturer on late Ottoman history, Ottoman Islam and relationships between Ottomans and Europe. He has lectured in the United States, England, France, Lebanon and Palestine. He has written several essays on the
fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
history of the Republic of Turkey. His book
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909 was awarded the Turkish Studies Association Fuad Köprülü prize in 2001. == Partial bibliography ==