Halil İnalcık

Halil İnalcık (born 07.09.1916) is a Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire. Between 1972 and 1993 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. Since 1994 he has been teaching at Bilkent University, where he founded the history department.

Biography

He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family that left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School, and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History, from which he graduated in 1940. He completed his PhD in 1943 in the same department. His PhD thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire.

He entered the same school as an assistant, then became assistant professor in 1946 and, after his return from lecturing briefly at the University of London, became a professor in the same department in 1952. He has lectured at various universities in the United States as a guest professor. In 1972 he was invited to join the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he taught Ottoman history until 1993. In 1994 he returned to Turkey and founded the history department of Bilkent University, where he still teaches.

In 1993, he donated his collection of books, journals and off-prints on the history of Ottoman Empire to the library of Bilkent University. He has been a member and president of many international organizations. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Historical Sciences. He is also a member of the Institute of Turkish Studies.

Works

• in English:
  • "The Policy of Mehmed II toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City" (1968)
  • "Capital Formation in the Ottoman Empire" (1969), The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 29, No. 1, The Tasks of Economic History, pp. 97–140
  • "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)
  • 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:
  • Makaleler 1: Doğu Batı, Doğu Batı Yayınları 2005
  • Fatih devri üzerinde tetkikler ve vesikalar Ankara, 1954
  • Osmanlı'da Devlet, Hukuk, Adalet, Eren Yayıncılık 2000
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi Cilt 1 /1300-1600, Eren Yayıncılık, Prof. Dr. Donald Quataert ile 2001
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi Cilt 2 / 1600-1914, Eren Yayıncılık 2004
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu - Toplum ve Ekonomi, Eren Yayıncılık
  • Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klasik Çağ (1300-1600), Yapı Kredi Yayınları 2003
  • Tanzimat ve Bulgar Meselesi Eren Yayıncılık
  • ABD Tarihi, Allan Nevins/Henry Steele Commager (çeviri) Doğu Batı Yayınları 2005
  • Şair ve Patron, Doğu Batı Yayınları 2003
  • Balkanlar (Prof. Dr. Erol Manisalı ile)
  • Atatürk ve Demokratik Türkiye, Kırmızı Yayınınları (1.Baskı: Temmuz 2007 - 2.Baskı: Aralık 2007)
  • Devlet-i Aliyye (1.Baskı: 2009)
  • Kuruluş - Osmanlı Tarihini Yeniden Yazmak
  • Tanzimat, Değişim Sürecinde Osmanlı İmparatorluğu (Mehmet Seyitdanlıoğlu ile birlikte) İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları 2011.
  • OSMANLILAR, Fütühat ve Avrupa İle İlişkiler
  • Has-Bağçede 'Ayş u Tarab - Nedimler Şairler Mutripler, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları (2011)
  • Kuruluş ve İmparatorluk Sürecinde Osmanlı
  • Osmanlılar (2010)
  • Kuruluş ve İmparatorluk Sürecinde Osmanlı (2011)
  • Rönesans Avrupası Türkiye'nin Batı Medeniyetiyle Özdeşleşme Süreci, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları (2011)
  • Osmanlı ve Modern Türkiye, Timaş Yayınları (2013)
  • Devlet-i 'Aliyye: Tagayyür ve Fesad, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Üzerine Araştırmalar II, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları (2014)

His most important work was his first book, Hicrî 835 tarihli Sûret-i defter-i sancak-i Arvanid (Copy of the register for A.H. 835 for the Sanjak of Albania) which was published in Ankara in 1954 and presents one of the earliest available land register in Ottoman Empire's archives.

Awards

• TÜRKSOY Honour Medal.
• Founding Member of Eurasian Academy

External links

• Official Web Page – Halil İnalcık Web Page
• Bilkent University – Halil İnalcık Collection
• Who is Who Database – Halil İnalcık
• Biyografi.net – Halil İnalcık