Robert Dankoff

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 the University of Chicago 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 Turkology. ^[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

• Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey, 20 October 2008
• Honorary doctorate from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 2021 ^[5]

Publications

• 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

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:
   • Bilici, Faruk (February 2007). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 39 (1): 147–148. doi:10.1017/S0020743807362569. JSTOR   4129130. S2CID   162455324.
   • Bozarslan, Hamit (2006). Studia Islamica (102/103): 224–227. JSTOR   20141091.
7. Reviews of Armenian Loanwords in Turkish:
   • As., G. (1999–2000). Iran & the Caucasus. 3/4: 426–428. JSTOR   4030816.
   • Hetzer, Armin (1995). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 85: 355–357. JSTOR   23866202.
   • Schütz, Edmond (1996). Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 49 (1/2): 251–253. JSTOR   43391288.
8. Reviews of The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman:
   • Finkel, Caroline (1993). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 56 (3): 595. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00007813. JSTOR   620705. S2CID   246639198.
   • Goodwin, Godfrey (April 1993). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Third Series. 3 (1): 118–119. doi:10.1017/S1356186300003795. JSTOR   25182651.
   • Halman, Talat Sait (October–December 1993). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 113 (4): 626–627. doi:10.2307/605811. JSTOR   605811.
   • Johanson, Lars (1994). Oriens. 34: 550–552. doi:10.2307/1580533. JSTOR   1580533.
   • Köhbach, Markus (1998). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 88: 393–395. JSTOR   23865164.
   • MacKay, Pierre A. (December 1991). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 25 (2): 204–206. doi:10.1017/S0026318400024457. JSTOR   23060519. S2CID   251246531.
   • Nagel, Tilman (1996). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 146 (2): 731–732. JSTOR   43380714.
9. Reviews of Wisdom of Royal Glory:
   • Devereux, Robert (November 1985). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 17 (4): 577–579. doi:10.1017/S002074380002972X. JSTOR   163443. S2CID   162255410.
   • Schimmel, Annemarie (April–June 1985). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105 (2): 356–357. doi:10.2307/601735. JSTOR   601735.
   • Tekin, Talât (January 1989). Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 48 (1): 68–70. doi:10.1086/373364. JSTOR   544518.