M. Şükrü Hanioğlu is a Turkish professor of late Ottoman

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in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at

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. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the department chair. Currently, he is an associated faculty member at Princeton's History and the Practice of Diplomacy Program.

Education

He received his

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and

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and his Ph.D. in

from

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. His thesis was on the political activities and thought of one of the founders of the

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(CUP), Dr.

Abdullah Cevdet Abdullah Cevdet Bey (‎9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was a Young Turk intellectual and physician of Kurdish origin. He was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and wrote articles with pen name of "Bir Kür ...

Research

He has done extensive research on the history of the CUP during the period from 1889 to 1908, i.e. from its foundation to the

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using organization's own papers (since it was an underground organization), archival sources including those found in the

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, and

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. He was also the first foreign scholar to visit the national archives of

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, during the period when hardly anyone could visit the country.

Representative publications

* ''Bir siyasal düşünür olarak Doktor Abdullah Cevdet ve Dönemi,'' Istanbul, 1981 * ''Bir siyasal örgüt olarak Osmanlı Ittihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti ve Jon Türklük,'' Istanbul, 1986 * ''Young Turks in Opposition,''

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, 1995 * ''Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, 1902–1908'', Oxford University Press, 2001 * ''Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire'', Princeton, 2008 * "Transformation of the Ottoman intelligentsia and the idea of science," Anuarul Institutului de Istorie si Arheologie A.D., Xenopol, 1987 * "Notes on the Young Turks and the Freemasons,"

Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern studies, sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies, West Asian Studies or South Western Asian studies, is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, an ...

, 25 (1989) * "Der Jungtürkenkongress von Paris (1902) und seine Ergebnisse," Die Welt des Islams 33 (1993) * "Transformation of the Ottoman intelligentsia and the idea of science," Anuarul Institutului de Istorie si Arheologie A.D., Xenopol, 1987

References

External links

His biography at Princeton University
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