Feroz Ahmad (born 1938) is a retired academic, historian and political scientist who taught at different universities, including the

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and

Yeditepe University Yeditepe University is a private foundation university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Established by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ( tr, İstanbul Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı, İSTEK Vakfı) in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims t ...

Early life and education

Ahmad was born in New Delhi in 1938. He received a bachelor's degree in history from

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

and a master's degree in the same field from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. He obtained a PhD from the University of London under the supervision of

Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near E ...

, and his thesis was about the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Ottoman Consti ...

in 1908.

Career

Ahmad worked at several US universities between 1966 and 2003. He was

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of history at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. From 2006 he taught at Yeditepe University, Istanbul.

Work

Ahmad has published many books and articles, most of which are concerned with Ottoman and modern Turkish history. His major books are as follows: ''The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914'' (1973); ''An Annotated Chronology of Multi-Party Politics in Turkey'' (1976, with Bedia Turgay Ahmad); ''From Unionism to Kemalism, Essays'' (1985); ''Turkish Experiment in Democracy'' (1994); ''The Making of Modern Turkey'' (1995); ''Turkey: The Quest for Identity'' (2006); ''From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey'' (2008); and ''The Young Turks and the Ottoman Nationalities: Armenians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews, and Arabs, 1908–1918'' (2014).

Personal life

Ahmad's wife was a Turkish woman, Bedia Turgay Ahmad (died December 2018), whom he married in 1964. He has twin girls from this marriage. He has been staying at Darüşşafaka Residence in Istanbul since 2017.

Honors

Ahmad is the recipient of the

Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey The Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Liyakat Nişanı) is awarded by the President of Turkey with approval of the Prime Minister upon the proposal of the relevant members of the Cabinet considering the opinion ...

, which was awarded to him in August 2014.

References

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