Prof. Feroz Ahmad

Curriculum Vitae
Feroz Ahmad
Date of Birth: 26 January 1938
Delhi, India
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1955-1958: B.A.(Hons.) degree in History with Medieval Islamic
History as the special subject, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University
1958-1961: B.A. (Hons.) degree in History with special reference
to the History of the Near and Middle East, at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
1961-1966: PhD. (London). Thesis on "The Committee of Union
and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-1913". (The years19621964 were spent in Turkey doing field work, with visits to the
Middle East).
1966-1967: Senior Research Fellow at the School of International
Affairs, Columbia University, New York.
1967: Joined University of Massachusetts at Boston as Assistant
Professor of History.
1970: Associate Professor.
1970-1972: On leave of absence, spent in Turkey and India doing
research on contemporary Turkey for the book commissioned in
l968 by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London.
1975: Granted tenure.
1976-1977: Sabbatical year. Social Science Research Council
Fellowship and Research Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Harvard University.
1978: Professor of History.
1980-1981: H.A.R. Gibb Visiting Scholar at the Center for
Middle
Eastern Studies, Harvard
University.
1983-1984: Sabbatical year, spent doing research in Turkey and
England on a Social Science Research Council Fellowship.
January l987: Directeur d'Etudes Associe at L'Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Spring l987: College of Arts and Sciences "Outstanding
Achievement Award" for Scholarship, Research, and Creativity.
October l989: Havens Center Visiting Scholar, Department of
Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1991-1994: University Research Professor, University of
Massachusetts at Boston
1993-1999: Appointed to the Editorial Board of the International
Journal of Middle East Studies.
March l994: Appointed Editor of Volume IV of The Cambridge History
of Turkey by the Press Syndicate of the Cambridge University Press.
(Resigned after surgery in 2000)
1997-98: Sabbatical in Turkey as a Fulbright fellow.
2000-2001 – Medical leave after surgery on 13 June 2000.
2002 – 15 June: retired.
2002-2005: Visiting scholar at the Fares Center for Eastern
Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University and Adjunct Professor of
Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School.
2005 August – Joined the Faculty of Yeditepe University, Istanbul.
2006 (August) – Appointed chair of the Department of International
Relations and Political Science and later of the History Department.
PUBLİCATİONS.
BOOKS
The Young Turks, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969.
Reprinted with a new preface: London: Hurst Company,
2010 (paperback); and New York: Columbia University,
2010 (hardback).
Ittihat ve Terakki, Istanbul 1971 (Turkish translation
of The Young Turks). New editions, Istanbul 1984
and l986, 1994, and 1999.
The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, 1950-1975,
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
1977.
with B. Ahmad, An Annotated Chronology of MultiParty Politics in Turkey, 1945-1971 (in Turkish), Bilgi
Yayinevi, Ankara 1977.
Ittihatciliktan
Kemalizme
("From
Unionism
to
Kemalism") Kaynak Yayinevi, Istanbul 1985. (This is a
book of essays on late Ottoman and modern Turkish
History published in Turkish).
The Making of Modern Turkey, Routledge, London and
New York l993.
Demokrasi Surecinde Türkiye (l945-l980), Hil Yayin :
Istanbul, August l994. (Translation of The Turkish
Experiment in Democracy l950-1975 updated to
September l980). Third printing appeared in 2008
Modern Türkiye’nin Olusumu. Sarmal Yayinevi: Istanbul,
1995 (Translation of The Making of Modern Turkey)
*New revised edition, Kaynak Yayinlar : Istanbul,
December 1999.
Turkey: The Quest for Identity. One World: Oxford.
2003.
*German translation: Geschichte der Türkei, Magnus
Verlag: Essen, 2005.
*Turkish Translation: Bir Kimlik Pesinde Türkiye. Bilgi
University Press, Istanbul, first editions, Aralik 2006.
Second Edition, Nisan 2007, third edition, Kasım
2008, fourth edition, Şubat 2010.
From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late
Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, volumes 1 and 2.
Istanbul Bilgi University Press: Istanbul 2008.
The Young Turks and the Nationalities Question,
1908-1918, forthcoming, Utah University Press, 2013
Work in Progress :
"Jihad: The Struggle for the Ottoman Empire, l9141918".
With Dr. A. Ahuja (translator), an annotated
translation of A.D. Novichev, Ekonomika Turtsii v
period mirovoi (The Economy of Turkey during the
World War, Leningrad, l935) with annotations and
introduction by Feroz Ahmad.
ARTİCLES
"Great Britain's Relations with the Young Turks, 1908-l914" Middle
Eastern Studies, ii/4 (July 1966), pp. 302-329.
Articles In Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd and 3rd edd., Leiden 1953"Huseyin Hilmi"
"Hukma" (The Ottoman Empire)
"Hurriyet ve Itilaf" (with D.A. Rustow)
"Ibrahim Hakki"
"Ittihadi Muhammedi"
"Ittihad ve Terakki"
"Mehmed Salim al Kazimi"
"Mahmud Shawkat Pasha"
"Mukhtar Pasha, Gazi Ahmad"
“Rida Nur”
“Talat Pasha”
" Yegana, Ali Munif"
"The Young Turk Revolution," Journal of Contemporary History
iii/3 (July 1970), 19-36.
Review Article on Ulrich Trumpener, Germany and the Ottoman
Empire, Princeton 1968 in Middle Eastern Studies, vi/1 (January
1970),100-105.
"1908-1914 Yılları Arasinda Büyük Britanya'nın Jön Türkler'le
Münasebetleri," Türk Tarih Enstitusu Dergisi (Journal of the
Historical Institute, Istanbul University) no.2, 1971,153-180.
"The Turkish Guerillas: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise," New Middle
East, no.55 (April 1973), 13-16.
"The role of Ali Fuat Cebesoy in the Turkish Revolution, Notes and
Communication, International Journal of Middle East Studies, iv/3
(July 1973),365-366.
"The Secularisation of Politics in Turkey, Relevance for "India?" in
Zafer Imam (ed.) Muslims in India, Orient Longman, New Delh
1974, 273-94.
with D.A. Rustow "The Parliament of the Second Constitutiona
Period, 1908-1918," in Güney-Dğgu Avrupa Arastirmaları Dergis
Istanbul 1976, 245-284.
"Vanguard of a Nascent Bourgeoisie: The Social and Economi
Policies of the Young Turks 1908-1918," in Osman Okyar and Hal
Inalcik (eds.), Social and Economic History of Turkey (1071-1920)
Ankara 1980, 329-350.
"Turkey's Democratic Tradition," in Foreign Policy, (Ankara), vo
VIII, nos. 3-4, Ankara 1981, 35-40
"The Political Economy of Kemalism," in Ali Kazancigil, and Ergun
Ozbudun (eds.), Ataturk Founder of a Modern State,London 1981
145-63; French translation "L'economie politique du kemalisme
in A. Kazancigil et E. Ozbudun (eds.), Ataturk fondateur de l
Turqie moderne, Paris 1984,139-56.
"Military intervention and the Crisis in Turkey", MERIP Reports, no
93, January 1981, 5-24. Reprinted in Huseyin Ramazanoglu (ed.)
Turkey in the World Capitalist System, London l985,191-219.
"The Islamic Assertion in Turkey: Pressures and State Response
Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 4, nos.1 & 2, Spring 1982,94-109.
"Unionist Relations with the Greek, Armenian and Jewish
Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914" in Benjamin
Braude and Bernard Lewis (eds.), Christians and Jews in the
Ottoman Empire, vol.1, New York, 1982, 401-34
"The Agrarian Policy of the Young Turks 1908-1918," in Jean
Louis Bacque-Grammont and Paul Dumont (eds.), Economie e
Societes dans L'Empire Ottoman, Paris 1983, 275-88.
"Turkiye'de Kemalizm ve Siyasetin Laiklesmesi" (Kemalism and the
Secularization of Politics in Turkey) in the proceedings of the 1981
International conference on Ataturk entitled Ataturk'un Dusunce ve
Uygulamalarinin Evrensel Boyutlari, Ankara 1983, 41-49.
"The Turkish Elections of 1983", Merip Reports, no.122, March
April 1984, 3-11.
"Local Elections Set Turkey's Political
Reports
no. 124, June 1984.
Configuration",
Merip
"La politique exterieure turque", Les Temps Modernes, nos. 456
457, Juillet-Aout 1984,156-74.
"1914-1915 Yillarinda Istanbul'da Hint Milliyetci Devrimciler;
(Turkish: Indian Nationalist Revolutionaries in Istanbul, 1914
1915), in Yapıt, no. 6, August-September 1984, 5-15.
"The State and Intervention in Turkey" in Turcica revue d'etude
Turques, vol. xvi, 1984, 51-64. Translated as "Turkiye'de Devle
ve Mudahale" in Turkiye Sorunlari - l988 Yilligi, Alan, Istanbul, Feb
l988, l36-l46.
"The Late Ottoman Empire" in Marian Kent (ed.), The Great Power
and the End of the Ottoman Empire, London l984, 5-30.
"The Transition to Democracy in Turkey", Third World Quarterly
vol. 7, no. 2, April 1985, 211-26.
"Leon Trotsky's Writings on the Ottoman State, the 1908
Revolution, and the Balkan Wars 1912-1913" (in Turkish) in Tarih
ve Toplum, no. 17, May 1985, 12-18.
"The Times (London) and the Kemalist Revolution l930-l939" in
Turkiye'de Yabanci Dilde Basin, Istanbul l985, 155-71.
"Turkiye'nin Cumhuriyet Donemi Siyasal Gelismeleri" (Politica
Developments in Turkey during the Republican Period) in Cumhuriye
Donemi Turkiye Ansiklopedisi (Turkey Encyclopaedia : the Republican
Period), 1991-98.
"Ittihat ve Terakki'nin Dis Politikasi (l908-l918)" (The Foreign
Policy of Union and Progress (l908-l918), in Tanzimat'tan
Cumhuriyet'e Turkiye Ansiklopedisi (Turkey Encyclopaedia : from
the Tanzimat to the Republic), Istanbul, l985-6, 293-303.
"The Kemalist Movement and India", Cahiers du GETC (Groupe
d'etudes sur Turquie contemporaine), no.3, Automne l987, ll2-26
(special number edited by Iskender Gokalp & Francois Georgeon).
"Islamic Reassertion in Turkey", Third World Quarterly, vol,10
no.2, April l988, 750-69.
"War and Society under the Young Turks, l908-l918", Review
(Fernand Braudel Center) vol. xi, no.2, Spring l988, 265-86.
(Translated as "Jon Turkler doneminde Savas ve Toplum" in Tarih
ve Toplum (History and Society, no.64, 239-48).
"Die Suche nach einer Ideologie in der Kemalistischen Turkei l9l9
l939" (The Search for Ideology in Kemalist Turkey, l9l9-l939) in
Linda Schatkowski Schilcheer & Claus Scharf (eds.), Der Nahe
Osten in der Zwischenkriegszeit l9l9-l939, Franz Steiner Verlag
Stuttgart, l989, 341-354.
"Ottoman Armed Neutrality and Intervention: August-Novembe
l914" in Studies on Ottoman Diplomatic History, no. iv, Sinan
Kuneralp (ed.) Istanbul : the Isis Press (n.d. l990?), 41-61.
"Politics and Islam in Modern Turkey", Middle Eastern Studies
(London) vol.27/i, January 1991, 3-21.
"La politique etrangere de la Turquie dans les annes 80" in L
Turquie au Seuil de l'Europe , Paul Dumont & Francois Georgeon
(eds.) Paris : L'Harmattan, l991, 239-55.
"The Progressive Republican Party, l924-1925" in Political Partie
and Democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and Jacob Landau (eds.)
London & New York : I.B. Tauris, l991, 65-82.
"Arab Nationalism, Radicalism, and the Specter of Neocolonialism
in Monthly Review, vol. 42, February l991, pp. 30-37.
“A Note on the International Status of Kuwait before Novembe
l914” in International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 24/i, Feb
l992, l81-87
“The Politics of Islamic Reassertion (or ‘Fundamentalism’) : the
Social and Ideological Dimensions, Distinguished Lecture Series
1991-1992”, May l992, Office of Graduate Studies and Research
University of Massachusetts at Boston,1-16.
“Postage Stamps, Politics and Ideology in the Late Ottoman
Empire” (in Turkish) in in Tarik Zafer Tunaya’ya Armagan, Istanbu
l992, 335-342
“War and Society under the Young Turks l908-1918” in Alber
Hourani, Philip Khoury, and Mary Wilson (eds.), The Modern Middle
East : A Reader, I.B. Tauris : London & New York, l993, 125-143
(Reprint of the article first published in Revue, Spring l988)
Articles :
1) ‘Kemal Ataturk’;
2) ‘Turkey’; and
3) ‘Young Turks’
in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, Joel Krieger
editor-in-chief. Oxford University Press, New York, l993
“The Development of Class Consciousness in Turkey” in Workers and
Working Classes in the Middle East : Struggles, Histories
Historiographies, Zachary Lockman (ed.), SUNY : Albany, l994, pp
133-163.
“Some Thoughts on the Role of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the
Genesis and Development of the Socialist Movement in Turkey
(1876-1923)” in Mete Tuncay and Erik Jan Zurcher (eds.), Socialism
and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire l976-l923. British Academi
Press in association with The International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, I.B.Tauris : London/New York, l994, pp. 13-25 and
169-171(Notes).
Articles in The Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. John
Esposito, editor-in-chief. Oxford University Press, New York, l995
1) ‘Anavatan Partisi;
2) ‘Demokrat Parti’;
3) ‘Enver Pasha’
4)‘Ittihad-i Muhammedi Cemiyeti’;
5) ‘Pan-Turanism’;
6) ‘Said Halim Pasha’;
7) ‘Turkey’; and
8) ‘Young Turks’
“Ottoman Perceptions of the Capitulations 1800-1914” in Journa
of Islamic Studies, 11/i, January 2000, 1-20. Reprinted in Fero
Ahmad, From Empire to Republic – Essays on the Later ottoman
Empire and Modern Turkey, ii, Istanbul 2008, 44
“Ideology and War Aims of the Unionist Government, 1914-1918
in Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul. 33/50, 2001, 1-13.
With Jacob Landau, ‘Conclusion: Opting Out of the Nation’ in
Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World. Willem van
Schendel and Erik Zürcher (eds.), I.B. Tauris: London & New York
2001, pp. 223-235.
“The Special Relationship: the Committee of Union and Progres
and the Ottoman-Jewish Political Elite l908-1918” in Jews, Turks
Ottomans, Avigdor Levy (ed.), Syracuse University Press
Syracuse, New York, 2002, pp. 212-230 & notes, 332-5.
‘ The Historical Background of Turkish Foreign Policy’ in The Future
of Turkish Foreign Policy, Lenore G. Martin and Dimitiris Keridi
(eds.), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London
2002, pp.9-33.
‘Profesor Feroz Ahmad ile Ermeni Sorunu Hakkinda Gorüsme’
interview conducted by Emre Kayhan in Foreign Policy, August
September 2005, 76-81.
“Tarih Her On Yılda bir Gözden Geçirmelidir”, interview conducted
by Tolga Cora and Yonca Güneş Yücel, in RKitap [Remzi Kitabevi
Gazetesi, no. 1, January 2006. 11.
‘Turkey’, article forthcoming in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the
Modern World.
‘Atatürk’, chapter in ‘Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and
Authoritarian Rulers of Southeast Europe’, Bernd J. Fischer (ed.)
Hurst and Co. London 2007, 141-164
‘Politics and Political Parties in the Turkish Republic’, chapter in the
Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, vol. 4: ‘Turkey in the Modern
World’, 226-265, Resat Kasaba (ed.), Cambridge University Press
2008
‘Ikinci Meşruriyet Döneminde Jön Türk-Ermeni Iliskileri’ in Hoşgörü
Toplumunda Ermeniler, M.Metin Hülagü et als (eds.), Erciye
Universites, Kayseri, 2007, vol.ii, 161-187.
(This is the Turkish translation of the conference paper on ‘Young
Turk-Armenian Relations during the Second Constitutional Period’).
Articles: ‘Constitution’ (30/6/06), ‘Parliaments’ (30/9/07), and
‘Political Parties’ (30/9/07) forthcoming in Dictionnaite de l’Empire
ottoman. Paris.
Article entitled ‘Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde Çağdaşma ve Çağdasşlı
arasısnda Çatışma’ published in a booklet published by Istanbu
Barosu Yayınları as Cumhuriyet ve Demokrasi, Istanbul 2008, 26-31
‘Kamil Pasha and the British, 1908 —1913’, Prof. Dr. Ergun
Ozbudun’a Armagan – Essays in Honor of Ergun Ozbudun. Vol.
Siyaset Bilimi/Political Science. Serap Yazici, Kemal Gözler, Fua
Keymen, eds. Yetkin Basınevi: Ankara 2008, 17—29.
“Young Turk – Armenian Relations during the Second Constitutiona
Period, 1908-1914”, in Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Metin
Hulagu. Sakir Batmaz, and Gulbadi Alan (des.), Erciyes University
2008.
“The Growth and Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie”, in Philologiae e
Historiae Turcicae Fundamenta - Turkey in the Twentieth Century
Erik-Jan Zürcher (ed.), Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin: 2008,335-358.
“Politics and Political Parties in Republican Turkey” in The Cambridge
History of Turkey, vol.4, ‘Turkey in the Modern World, Reşat Kasab
(ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2008, 226-265.
“Military and Politics in Turkey” in Turkey’s Engagement with
Modernity – Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century. Celi
Kerslake, Kerem Öktem, Philip Robins, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, i
association with St Antony’s College, Oxford, London, 2010.
“Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde Siyaset ve Siyasi Partiler”, Türkiye Tarih
1839-2010: Modern Dünyada Türkiye, Reşat Kasaba (ed.) ve Zuha
Bilgin (Çeviri). Kitapyayinevi: Istanbul, 2011, 229-274.
‘Young Turk Relations with the US, 1908-1918’ chapter in American
Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830-1989, Nur Bilge
Criss, Selçuk Esenbel, Tony Greenwood and Louis Mazzari (eds.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011, 83-99