Ali Bulaç is a prolific scholar, sociologist, and writer, authoring more than twenty books on sociology, Islam, Qur'anic commentary, democracy, modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary Turkish and Middle Eastern politics. Bulaç is a prominent columnist writing extensively on political, socio-cultural, and historic issues in both Zaman, Turkey's largest daily, and its close sibling Today's Zaman, Turkey's number one English language Daily.