Halil Ibrahim Inalcık (Turkish: Halil İnalcık) (May 26, 1916 - July 25, 2016) was a Turkish historian.
He received a doctorate in history from the Faculty of Arts, Ankara University in 1940 AD. He worked as a professor of Ottoman history at Bilkent University in Ankara.
He received the King Faisal International Prize - Department of Islamic Studies in the year 1432 AH / 2011 AD, for his book “The Economic and Social History of the Ottoman State”, Part One.
His writings :
The Ottoman Empire: Conquests, Organization and Economy, London, 1978
The Middle East and the Balkans under Ottoman Rule: Essays in Economy and Society, Indiana University Center for Turkish Studies, 1993
A History of Humanity, 5 vols., New York, 1995
Sources and Studies on the Black Sea: Kaffa Customs Register 1486-1490, Cambridge, 1996
Essays on Ottoman History, Istanbul, 1998
Kemal Ataturk, with Bernard Lewis, Milan, 1998
The Ottomans, 12 volumes, in collaboration with Ekmeleddin Oglu, Nejat Gonik and Yusufoglu, Istanbul, 1999
History of the Ottoman Empire from rise to decline, Dar al-Madar al-Islami, 2002
The Ottoman Civilization, 10 volumes, Ankara, 2005
Osmanlılar pdf by Halil Inalcik
Bu kitabı okuyanlar umuyoruz ki, Osmanlı Devlet-i ‘Aliyye’sinin (İmparatorluğunun) ortaya çıkışı ve gelişimi, fetih yöntemleri, devlet sistemi ve nihayet ezeli rakibi Hıristiyan Avrupa ile ilişkileri üzerine altmış yıla varan araştırmalarımın genel çizgisini bulacaktır. Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık