Marc David Baer is an historian and professor of International History at the

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Life

Baer was born in

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. He celebrated his

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. Baer received his Bachelor's of Arts from

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and his Ph.D. from the

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. He is a scholar of

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and

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, who conducts research utilising English,

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, Turkish including

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and

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. He is the author of six books. In addition, he has published works on Turks in Germany including “Mistaken for Jews: Turkish Ph.D. Students in Nazi Germany” ( German Studies Review) and “Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Berlin and the Shoah” ( Comparative Studies in Society & History) as well as German-Jewish converts to Islam including “Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany:

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and ‘The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.’” (

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) and “Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust: The Ahmadi of Berlin and German-Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus" (

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Publications

Books

*''Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe''.

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, Oxford, 2008. • Winner, Albert Hourani Prize,

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, Best Book in Middle East Studies, (2008). (Turkish translation, ''IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupasında İhtida ve Fetih'', Hil, 2010) *''The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks''.

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, 2010. (Turkish translation, ''Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler'', Doğan, 2011) *''At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida'' (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016) *''Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide'' (

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, 2020). Winner, 2021 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies (for a book published in 2020), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) *''German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus'' (New York:

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, 2020) *''The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs'' (New York:

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, 2021), short-listed for the

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, 2022

References

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