M. Hakan Yavuz

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M. Hakan Yavuz (born 24 April 1964) is a Turkish political scientist and historian, a scholar of contemporary Islamic and Turkish studies. [1]

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Early life and education

Yavuz was born in Bayburt, Turkey in 1964. Kazım Yavuz, his father, was a political activist and teacher who was graduated from the Ernis (Van) Village Institutes and led numerous cooperative projects to develop rural area economy and infrastructure. Yavuz obtained his Bachelor of Arts in political science at Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University (Mektep-i Mülkiye) in 1987. He received his master's from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He spent one semester in 1989 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to complete his master thesis that compared the works of Michael Oakeshott and Michael Walzer. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. He received a two-year MacArthur Foundation scholarship to carry out research on the localization of Islam in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan as well as in eastern Turkey. [1] His dissertation titled Islamic Political Identity in Turkey [2] was published by the Oxford University Press in 2003.

Academic career

Yavuz began his academic career at Bilkent University in 1996 while he was completing his dissertation. After spending one year there, he joined the University of Utah as an assistant professor in 1998. He held a joint appointment in the university's Department of Political Science and the Middle East Center. Yavuz was a Kroc Institute For International Peace Study Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2001 followed by his one-year fellowship at the University of California-Irvine in 2000. He taught as a visiting professor at Sarajevo University in Bosnia, Waseda University in Tokyo, Manas University in Biskek, and the Central European University in Budapest. [1]

Since 2009, Yavuz runs the Turkish Studies Project funded by Turkish Coalition of America, one of the main purposes of which is to deny that the Armenian genocide constituted a genocide. Yavuz wrote that "there was no genocide, but rather local responses to the Armenian provocations, the guerrilla tactics on the side of the occupying Russian army, and the rebellions in different parts of Anatolia". [3]

Publications

Authored books

Edited books

Yavuz is co-editor of a three-volume edition on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire:

His other edited books include:

with Ahmet Erdi Ozturk eds., The Karabakh Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Causes & Consequences (Springer International Publishing, 2022) [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "M HAKAN YAVUZ - Home - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah". faculty.utah.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  2. Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. Religion and Global Politics. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2003-08-28. ISBN   9780195160857.
  3. Mamigonian, Marc A. (2015). "Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy". Genocide Studies International. 9 (1): 61–82. doi:10.3138/gsi.9.1.04. S2CID   154623321.
  4. Yavuz, M. Hakan (May 2021). Erdoğan: The Making of an Autocrat. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   9781474483261.
  5. Yavuz, M. Hakan (28 August 2003). Islamic Political Identity in Turkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195160857.
  6. Yavuz, M. Hakan (October 21, 2009). Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511815089. ISBN   9780521888783.
  7. "Toward an Islamic Enlightenment".
  8. Yavuz, M. Hakan (September 28, 2022). "War and Diplomacy | The University of Utah Press".
  9. Yavuz, M. Hakan; Blumi, Isa (September 28, 2022). "War and Nationalism | The University of Utah Press".
  10. Yavuz, M. Hakan; Ahmad, Feroz (September 28, 2022). "War and Collapse | The University of Utah Press".
  11. Yavuz, M. Hakan; Balci, Bayram (September 29, 2022). "Turkey's July 15th Coup | The University of Utah Press".
  12. "The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy and the AK Parti".[ permanent dead link ]
  13. Yavuz, M. Hakan; Gunter, Michael M. (2023). The Karabakh Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Causes & Consequences. springer.com. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16262-6. ISBN   978-3-031-16261-9. S2CID   254072350 . Retrieved 9 September 2023.