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" Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Karpat, Kemal H.
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English
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1062526
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ALei2923
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Karpat, Kemal H.
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Köprülü, Mehmed Fuad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Karpat, Kemal H.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(951 words)
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Considered the founder of Turkish national historiography, Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1968) started his career as a sociologist, poet, and student of literature. As a descendent of eleventh/seventeenth-century grand viziers, he maintained a close identification with Ottoman history while hesitantly adapting to Republican Turkey’s political and ideological requirements. Educated in Ottoman primary and secondary schools (rüşdiye and idadi) , Köprülü enrolled in the law school of Istanbul University (Darülfünun), but left because of its “pedestrian” level, a claim that branded him as arrogant and elitist. Actually, Köprülü was
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Islam.
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ALei2923.pdf
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