Peter Benjamin Golden (born 1941) is an American historian who is

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, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at

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. He has written many books and articles on Turkic and Central Asian Studies, such as ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples''. Golden grew up in New York and attended Music & Art High School. He graduated from

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Queens College in 1963, before obtaining his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from

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in 1968 and 1970, respectively. Golden also studied at the Dil ve Tarih – Coğrafya Fakültesi (School of Language and History – Geography) in Ankara (1967–1968). He taught at Rutgers University from 1969 until his retirement in 2012. He was Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program (2008–2011) at Rutgers. He is an honorary member of the

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and Kőrösi Csoma Society of Hungarian Orientalists and was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the

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(Princeton) 2005–2006. In 2019, he was elected an Honorary Member of the

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Works

*(1980) ''Khazar studies: An Historico-philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars'', Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó *(1992) ''An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East'', Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. *(1998) ''Nomads and sedentary societies in medieval Eurasia'', Washington, D. C.:

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. *(2000) The King's Dictionary. ''The Rasulid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol'', Leiden:

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. (Book, Edited, Vol. 4 in the series Handbuch der Orientalistik, 8. Abteilung Zentralasien) *(2003) ''Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs'', Aldershot, UK:

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. * *(2007) ''The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives'', co-edited with H. Ben-Shammai and A. Róna-Tas. Leiden:

. *(2009) ''The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age,'' co-edited with N. Di Cosmo, A.J. Frank, Cambridge:

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. *(2010) ''Turks and Khazars: Origins, Institutions, and Interactions in Pre-Mongol Eurasia'', Aldershot, UK:

. *(2011) ''Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes'', Bucharest–Brăila: Editura Academiei Române – Muzeul Brăilei Editura Istros *(2011) ''Central Asia in World History'', Oxford-New York:

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