SPS Speaker Series Presents:
"Historiography and Politics:
Mehmed F. Köprülü's Genealogy of the 'National Turkish Spirit'"
by
Assistant Professor Markus Dressler
Istanbul Technical University
15th April 2009, Wednesday
14.40
FASS 2054
Abstract:
Mehmed Fuad Koprulu (1890-1966) is widely recognized as one of the
founding fathers of modern Turkish historiography. He aimed to trace
the historical evolution and extension of the 'national Turkish taste
and spirit' from Central Asian origins to its arrival and flourishing
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