He attended a congress in Paris in 1950, where he met Fernand Braudel, whose work greatly influenced him. Here, he met other influential historians such as Bernard Lewis. In 1949, he was sent by the university to London, where he worked on Ottoman and Turkic inscriptions in the British Museum and attended seminars by Paul Wittek at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
He became a member of the Turkish Historical Society in 1947. He worked on the Ottoman judicial records of Bursa and in the Ottoman archives in Istanbul. In December 1943, he became assistant professor and his research interest became focused on the social and economic aspects of the Ottoman Empire. His PhD thesis was on the Bulgarian question in the late Ottoman Empire, specifically during tanzimat, and constituted one of the first socioeconomic approaches in Turkish historiography. He completed his PhD in 1942 in the same department. His work on Timur drew the attention of Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, who facilitated his entry as an assistant to the Modern Age Department of the university. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School, and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of History, from which he graduated in 1940. He was born in Istanbul on 7 September 1916 to a Crimean Tatar family that left Crimea for the city in 1905. He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy. From 1994 on he taught at Bilkent University, where he founded the history department. Between 19 he taught Ottoman history at the University of Chicago. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 19. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian.
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