Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924, Babadag

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) was a

n- Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the

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Early life

He was of Turkish origin and born in Babadag,

. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the

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and his PhD from

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. He previously worked for the

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and taught at the

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and

. His final post was at Istanbul Şehir University.

Selected publications

* ''Elites and Religion: From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic '' (Times, 2010) * ''The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization'' (Cambridge University Press; 2009) *''The Politicization of Islam'' (Oxford University Press, 2001) *''The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey'' (Brill, 2000) *''Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East'' (Praeger, 1968) *''Turkey's Politics: The Transition to a Multi-Party System'' (Princeton University Press, 1959) *''Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey'' (Princeton University Press, 1964) *''An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State'' (Princeton UP, 1973) *''Social Change and Politics in Turkey'' (Brill Leiden, 1973) *''Turkey's Foreign Policy in Transition'' (Brill Leiden, 1975)

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* Interview: {{DEFAULTSORT:Karpat, Kemal Scholars of Ottoman history Romanian people of Crimean Tatar descent People from Babadag 1923 births 2019 deaths University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty University of Washington alumni New York University alumni Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni Academic staff of Istanbul Şehir University Romanian Sunni Muslims Romanian emigrants to Turkey Turkish emigrants to the United States Honorary members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences American Sunni Muslims 20th-century Turkish historians 21st-century Turkish historians Romanian historians 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians Burials at Fatih Mosque Graveyard, Istanbul Academic staff of Middle East Technical University