Halil İnalcık

خليل إينالجك

7 September 1916 CE · 1334 AH – 25 July 2016 CE · 1437 AH

Istanbul

Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire, styled Seyhü'l-Müverrihin, dean of historians. Born in Istanbul in 1916 to a Crimean Tatar family, he taught at Ankara University (1940-1972), the University of Chicago (1972-1986) and Bilkent University, where he founded the history department. His social and economic studies of the classical-age Empire reshaped the field; he died at Ankara in 2016 and was buried in the Fatih Mosque cemetery in Istanbul.