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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.
Dancoff was raised in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.He attended Carnegie Tech on a private scholarship and received his B.S. in physics in 1934, followed by a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1936.
At several points throughout the Kutadgu Bilig, the author talks some about himself; from this we know a certain amount about him.. The author of the Kutadgu Bilig was named Yūsuf and was born in Balasagun, which at the time was the winter capital of the Karakhanid empire and was located near present-day Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan.
The house of Evliya Çelebi in Kütahya, now used as a museum. Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya. [3] Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman court, his father, Dervish Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazian relation of the grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha. [4]
Mahmud ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari [a] was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar.. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part of the lake of Issyk-Kul (nowadays village of Barskoon in Northern Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region) and related to the ruling dynasty of Kara-Khanid Khanate.
After some Kurdish tribes became Islamized in the 10th century, they joined in the persecution of Yazidis in the Hakkari mountains. [3] [11] Due to their religion, Muslim Kurds persecuted and attacked the Yazidis with particular brutality.
The Kurdish emirates, Kurdish chiefdoms or Kurdish principalities (Sorani Kurdish: میرنشینە کوردیەکان) were several semi-independent entities which existed during the 16th to 19th centuries during the state of continuous warfare between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran. [1]
Tong Yabghu Qaghan [a] (r. 618–628 or 630 [3]) was the khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate from 618 to 628 AD. Tong Yabghu was the brother of Sheguy (r. 611–618), the previous khagan of the western Göktürks, and was a member of the Ashina clan; [4] his reign is generally regarded as the zenith of the Western Göktürk Khaganate.