Hasan Bülent Paksoy

Hasan Bülent Paksoy

Hasan Bülent Paksoy is a Turkish historian (b. 1948 in Ödemiş) who earned his doctoral degree at the St. Antony's College of the Oxford University in England with a grant from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom. The WorldCat (of OCLC) lists 16 entries under his name. Most of them are available online.

Paksoy has also worked in History departments at Ohio State University, Franklin University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Central Connecticut State University and the Middle East Center of Harvard University.

Paksoy, earned his undergraduate degree with Bostwick scholarship in USA at 1970. Graduate Degree with USA National Science Foundation project assistantship in 1976.

In addition to authoring numerous original and historical works, Paksoy is the translator of such historical fiction as "The Sun is Also Fire", a short story about the struggle of the Turks of Transoxiana to remain independent of the expanding Caliphate in the 600s and 700s CE.

External links

* [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/ E-texts of works by Paksoy]
* [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-7/bio.html Brief Bio of Paksoy]
* [http://lecturesoncentralasia.blogspot.com/ Latest volume by Paksoy]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/on/paksoy/kuyas.html The Sun is Also Fire]


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