Halil İnalcık

Halil İnalcık is a leading Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

He was born in Istanbul in 1916 in a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Istanbul in 1905. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History and graduated in 1940. He completed his PhD. in 1943 in the same department. His Ph.D. thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire. He entered the same school as an assistant, then he became assistant professor in 1946 and after his return from lecturing in the University of London for a while, he became a professor in the same department in 1952. He lectured in various universities in the United States as a guest professor. In 1972, he was invited by the University of Chicago. Between 1972 and 1993 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. In 1994, he returned to Turkey and founded history department at Bilkent University where he is still teaching. He was a member and president of many international foundations. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Historical Sciences.

Works

* in English:
** "The Policy of Mehmed II toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City" (1968)
** "Ottoman Policy and Administration in Cyprus after the Conquest" (1969)
** "History of the Ottoman Empire Classical Age / 1300-1600" (1973
** "The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy" (1978)
** "Studies in Ottoman Social and Economic History" (1985)
** "The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire: Essays on Economy and Society" (1993)
** "Süleymân the Second [i.e. the First] and His Time" (with Cemal Kafadar, 1993)
** "An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914" (with Donald Quataert, 1994)
** "From Empire to Republic: Essays on Ottoman and Turkish Social History" (1995)
** "Sources and Studies on the Ottoman Black Sea: The Customs Register of Caffa" 1487-1490 (1996)
** "Essays in Ottoman History" (1998)

* in Turkish:
** "Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ 1300-1600" ("Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire") (2003)

References

* Who is Who Database - [http://www.kimkimdir.gen.tr/kimkimdir.php?id=2942 "Halil İnalcık"]
* Biyografi.net - [http://www.biyografi.net/kisiayrinti.asp?kisiid=2161 "Halil İnalcık"]

External links

* Bilkent University - [http://library.bilkent.edu.tr/Inalcik.htm "Halil İnalcık Collection"]