Şerif Mardin

Şerif Mardin
Şerif Mardin
Born	Ahmed Halil Şerif Arif Mardin; 1927; Istanbul, Turkey
Died	6 September 2017 (aged 90); Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater	Stanford University (BA, PhD); Johns Hopkins University (MA);
Known for	Sociology of religion (Islam, in particular); Fundamentalism; Political sociology; Historical sociology of the Ottoman Empire; Intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire;
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology and political science
Institutions	Ankara University; Harvard University; Middle East Technical University; Boğaziçi University; Sabancı University; Istanbul Şehir University;

Şerif Mardin (1927 – 6 September 2017) was a prominent Turkish sociologist, political scientist, academic and thinker. In a 2008 publication, he was referred to as the "doyen of Turkish sociology."