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After study at the Dil ve Tarih-Cog˘rafya Fakültesi in Ankara, Turkey, he received his PhD in History from Columbia University. He came to Rutgers (Newark) in 1969. His research and teaching Interests include the history of medieval Eurasia and the interaction of the Turko-Mongolian steppe peoples with the neighboring sedentary states (Rus', Byzantium, the Caucasus, and the Islamic world). Ethnogenesis. Turkic philology. At Rutgers, among the courses he has taught are: The Development of the Civilizations of Asia, Africa and Latin America (team-taught), History of the Modern Middle East, History of Islamic Civilization, Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia, The Ottoman Empire, History of Iran, History of the Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, the Slavs and the Near East. His recent publications include:

The King's Dictionary. The Rasûlid Hexaglot: Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongolian, edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Peter B. Golden, translated by T. Halasi-Kun, P.B. Golden, L. Ligeti, Ö. Schütz,with essays by P.B. Golden and Th. T. Allsen (Leiden: Brill, 2000).

Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs in Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2003).

Türk Halkları Tarihine Giriş, (Turk. Trans.by O. Karatay (Ankara: KaraM, 2002), a Turkish translation of my An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1992). Expanded 2^nd edition, KaraM Yayınevi, 2007.

Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe. Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs  in Variorum Collected Studies series (Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing, 2003)

 Co-authored with C. Zuckerman, A. Zajączkowski, Hazarlar ve Musevîlik, Hazırlayan O. Karatay (Çorum: KaraM Yayınevi, 2005).

 Hazar Çalışmaları (Istanbul: Selenge Yayınları, 2006) [Turkish translation of my Khazar Studies. Budapest, 1980, 2 vols.]

 Co-editor with Haggai Ben-Shammai and András Róna-Tas, The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Colloquium on the Khazars (Leiden: Brill, 2007).

 Co-editor with Nicola Di Cosmo, and Allen Frank, The Cambridge History of Medieval Inner Asia. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).

Honors and Awards

Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 2005-2006.
Recipient, Provost’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Rutgers-Newark (October 20, 2005)
Recipient, Intercollegiate Turkish Student Society Award for Distinguished Scholarship (October, 20, 2005)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001.
Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 1994.
Honorary Member, Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Society), elected 1989.