Historian Prof. Dr. Engin Deniz Akarlı passed away

Known for his works in the fields of Ottoman history, law and economic history, Prof. is the winner of the 2014 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Prize. Dr. Engin Deniz Akarlı passed away at the age of 81 at his home in the Etiler district of Istanbul.

Prof. Dr. A funeral prayer will be performed for Akarlı after the noon prayer at Şakirin Mosque in Üsküdar on November 10.

Akarlı's funeral will be buried in the family cemetery in Karacaahmet Cemetery.

Prof. Dr. Engin Deniz Akarlı will be remembered at the program to be held on November 20 at 14.00 at the Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library, whose real name is Alay Köşkü, located in Gülhane Park.

Akarlı's CV

Akarlı, who was born on September 26, 1945 in Eskişehir, graduated from Robert College, Department of Business Administration and Economics in 1968.

Akarlı, who received his master's degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, completed his doctorate on Middle Eastern history at Princeton University in 1976.

Akarlı, who started his academic career at Boğaziçi University, worked there between 1976-1983.

Then Jordan Yarmouk University and Washington University St. The historian, who works in St. Louis, started working at Brown University in 1996 and taught there until his retirement in 2012.

Akarlı, who also worked at Istanbul Şehir University, served as the dean of the university's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Akarlı's work "The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920", published in 1993, was awarded the Best History Book Award by the Missouri Historical Society.

The historian received the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Prize in 2014 for his work in the field of Ottoman history.

Akarlı, known for his academic studies on the Ottoman Empire, law, economics and Middle Eastern history, donated most of his library to the Science and Art Foundation in March 2026.

Known in international academic circles especially for his research on the geography of Lebanon and Jordan under Ottoman rule, Akarlı held the title of "Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus" in the field of Modern Middle Eastern History at Brown University's Department of History.