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Fuat Sezgin

فؤاد سزكين

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Istanbul

Turkish historian of Arab-Islamic science whose seventeen-volume Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums carried Brockelmann's history of Arabic literature forward. Born at Bitlis in 1924 and trained at Istanbul University under Hellmut Ritter, he was dismissed after the 1960 coup and moved to Frankfurt, where he founded the Institute for the History of the Arab-Islamic Sciences (1982) and its museum of scientific instruments; a sister museum opened in Istanbul in 2008. He died in Istanbul in 2018.

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At a glance

Roles
Historian · writer
Region
Anatolia
Identifiers
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Life in time

18751900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abderrahmane Youssoufi · Eka Tjipta Widjaja · Muazzez İlmiye Çığ · Mufti Abdul Razzaq · Shehu Shagari

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Istanbul

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Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1979

    Honours

    • King Faisal Prize · islamic-studies · Won · 1979 · topic: the influence of Muslim scholars on European civilization

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    Died in
    Istanbul
    Awarded
    King Faisal Prize

    People and things also explored

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan· Arap Camii, Istanbul· Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque, Istanbul· Eski Imaret Mosque· Eyüp Sultan Mosque· Fenari Isa Mosque· Gul Mosque, Istanbul· Hagia Sophia

    Sources

    • Fuat Sezgin — English Wikipedia
    • Fuat Sezgin — Turkish Wikipedia
    • Fuat Sezgin — German Wikipedia
    • Fuat Sezgin — Wikidata
    • King Faisal Prize — English Wikipedia
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Fuat Sezgin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fuat-sezgin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-07.

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