Kemal Karpat

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| birth_name = Kemal Karpat

| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|2|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Babadag, Tulcea, Romania

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|2|20|1924|2|15}}

| death_place = Manchester, New Hampshire

| occupation = professor and historian

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Kemal Karpat (15 February 1924,{{cite web |url=http://romhaber.com/2019/02/21/unlu-tarihci-kemal-karpat-abdde-vefat-etti/ |title = Home - Romanya Haber}}{{cite web |url=https://history.wisc.edu/2019/02/21/kemal-karpat-1923-2019/ |title = Kemal Karpat (1923-2019) – Department of History – UW–Madison}} Babadag Tulcea, Romania – 20 February 2019, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States){{cite web|url=http://m.milliyet.com.tr/kemal-karpat-kimdir-kemal-karpat-gundem-2831079/|title=Kemal Karpat kimdir? Kemal Karpat kaç yaşındaydı? - Son Dakika Haberler|website=m.milliyet.com.tr|access-date=21 February 2019}} was a Romanian-Turkish naturalised American historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.{{cite news|last=Kenyon|first=Richard L.|title=Interpreting The News ..Iran's Turmoil Rooted In Tenets Of Islam|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eWEaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6799,1235435&dq=kemal+karpat&hl=en|access-date=18 November 2010|newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=3 March 1979|page=5}}

Early life

He was of Turkish origin and born in Babadag, Romania. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University. He previously worked for the UN Economic and Social Council and taught at the University of Montana and New York University. His final post was at Istanbul Şehir University.

Selected publications

Elites and Religion: From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic (Times, 2010)
The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (Cambridge University Press; 2009)
The Politicization of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2001)
The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (Brill, 2000)
Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (Praeger, 1968)
Turkey's Politics: The Transition to a Multi-Party System (Princeton University Press, 1959)
Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey (Princeton University Press, 1964)
An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State (Princeton UP, 1973)
Social Change and Politics in Turkey (Brill Leiden, 1973)
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Transition (Brill Leiden, 1975)