Peter Benjamin Golden (born 1941) is an American

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, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at

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. He has written many books and articles on Turkic and

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, such as ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples''. Golden grew up in New York and attended Music & Art High School. He graduated from

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in 1963, before obtaining his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from

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in 1968 and 1970, respectively. Golden also studied at the Dil ve Tarih – Coğrafya Fakültesi (School of Language and History – Geography) in Ankara from 1967 to 1968. He taught at Rutgers University from 1969 until his retirement in 2012. He was Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Rutgers from 2008 to 2011. He is an honorary member of the Türk Dil Kurumu and of Hungarian Orientalists and was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the

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(Princeton) from 2005 to 2006. In 2019, he was elected an Honorary Member of the

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Works

*(1980) ''Khazar studies: An Historico-philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars'', Budapest:

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. *(1992) ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East'', Wiesbaden:

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. *(1998) ''Nomads and sedentary societies in medieval Eurasia'', Washington, D.C.:

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. *(2000) The King's Dictionary. ''The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol'', Leiden:

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(book, edited, Vol. 4 in the series Handbuch der Orientalistik, 8. Abteilung Zentralasien). *(2003) ''Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs'', Aldershot, UK:

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. * *(2007) ''The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives'', co-edited with H. Ben-Shammai and A. Róna-Tas. Leiden:

. *(2009) ''The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age,'' co-edited with N. Di Cosmo, A.J. Frank, Cambridge:

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. *(2010) ''Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia'', Aldershot, UK:

. *(2011) ''Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes'', Bucharest–Brăila: Editura Academiei Române – Muzeul Brăilei Editura Istros. *(2011) ''Central Asia in World History'', Oxford–New York:

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Rutgers faculty websiteCurriculum vitae
{{DEFAULTSORT:Golden, Peter Benjamin Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American Turkologists Khazar studies Historians of Central Asia 1941 births 21st-century American male writers Columbia University alumni