Feroz Ahmad was a Turkish-American academic, historian, and political scientist who taught at different universities, including the University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Yeditepe University.
11 Facts About Feroz Ahmad
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Feroz Ahmad was one of the leading scholars studying modern history of Turkey.
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Feroz Ahmad received a bachelor's degree in history from Delhi University and a master's degree in the same field from the University of London.
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Feroz Ahmad obtained a PhD from the University of London under the supervision of Bernard Lewis in 1966, and his thesis was about the Young Turk Revolution in 1908.
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Feroz Ahmad was Emeritus Professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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Feroz Ahmad published many books and articles, most of which are concerned with Ottoman and modern Turkish history.
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In From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey Feroz Ahmad argued that the reports of the British Foreign Office and of the Istanbul correspondents of The Times newspaper, and the conservative publications in the Ottoman Empire are the roots of the popular anti-semitic conspiracy theories in Turkey.
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Feroz Ahmad's wife was a Turkish woman, Bedia Turgay Feroz Ahmad, whom he married in 1964.
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Feroz Ahmad lived at Darussafaka Residence in Istanbul from 2017 until his death.
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Feroz Ahmad died in Istanbul on 20 February 2025, at the age of 87.
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Feroz Ahmad was the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey, which was awarded to him in August 2014.