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Robert Dankoff

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Robert Dankoff is Professor Emeritus of Ottoman & Turkish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.[1]

Robert Dankoff was born on 24 September 1943 in Rochester, New York. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, and in 1971 got a Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught Arabic at Brandeis University as an assistant professor in 1969-1975. He taught Turkish in the University of California (1976-77), and the University of Arizona (1977-1979). He joined the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Chicago University in 1979 as an assistant professor, where he became an associate professor in 1982, and a professor in 1987. He taught Turkish, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azeri, and Uzbek there until retiring in 2006.[2]

His research interests lie in Ottoman Literature and Turcology.[3] He has published extensively on Turkish texts from Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire, including text editions and translations of portions of the Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi.[4]

Honors

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Publications

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  • An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the book of Travels by Evliya Çelebi. Eland Publishing, 2011. ISBN 1906011583
  • Ottoman Explorations of the Nile: Evliya Çelebi's Map of the Nile and The Nile Journeys in the Book of Travels (Seyahatname). Gingko Library, 2018. ISBN 1909942162
  • From Mahmud Kasgari to Evliya Celebi Studies in Middle Turkic and Ottoman Literatures. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2009. ISBN 9781463216931
  • An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Çelebi (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, v. 31) (No. 31) (Brill Academic Publishing, 2004) ISBN 978-9004137158[6]
  • Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Harrassowitz, 1995)[7]
  • The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha, (1588-1662: As Portrayed in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels. SUNY Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0791406410[8]
  • Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig): A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes by Yusuf Khass Hajib (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1983)[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Robert Dankoff - The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies". University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
  2. ^ Tezcan, Nuran (2012). "Robert Dankoff'un Türkolojideki yeri üzerine". Divan'dan Seyahatname'ye Robert Dankoff (in Turkish). Yapı Kredi Kültür ve Sanat Yayıncılık. pp. 17–24. hdl:11693/51991. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ "The Historical Roots of Kashkaval". Balkan Insight. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  4. ^ Hickman, Bill; Leiser, Gary, eds. (2015). "An interview with Robert Dankoff, Professor Emeritus of Turkish and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago BARBARA BLACKWELL GüLEN . PUBLICATIONS O F". Turkish Language, Literature, and History. doi:10.4324/9781315750705. ISBN 9781317612957.
  5. ^ Tezcan, Nuran, Nuran (2012). "Ünlü Türkolog Prof. Robert Dankoff'a Onur Doktorası Verildi" (PDF). Kanat: Bilkent Üniversitesi Türk Edebiyatı Merkezi haber bülteni. Güz 2012 (40): 8. ISSN 1302-8332. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  6. ^ Reviews of An Ottoman Mentality:
  7. ^ Reviews of Armenian Loanwords in Turkish:
    • As., G. (1999–2000). Iran & the Caucasus. 3/4: 426–428. JSTOR 4030816.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hetzer, Armin (1995). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 85: 355–357. JSTOR 23866202.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Schütz, Edmond (1996). Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 49 (1/2): 251–253. JSTOR 43391288.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ Reviews of The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman:
  9. ^ Reviews of Wisdom of Royal Glory:
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