Draft:Benjamin C. Fortna
Submission declined on 26 December 2024 by Significa liberdade (talk).
Where to get help
How to improve a draft
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Editor resources
|  |
Comment: To help establish notability, you can try adding references for reviews of Fortna's books. This could help him pass the notability guidelines for authors. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 03:01, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Benjamin C. Fortna is an American historian of the modern Middle East.[1] He is currently Director of the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona.
Education
[edit]Fortna received his BA from Yale University.[2] He completed an MA at Columbia University, and a PhD at the University of Chicago, where his supervisor was Rashid Khalidi.[3]
Work
[edit]Fortna's first book was Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire.[4] His other publications include Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2016).[5]
Before his position at the University of Arizona, Fortna taught at SOAS, University of London.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Fortna is the son of theologian Robert T. Fortna and the brother of international relations scholar Virginia Page Fortna.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Benjamin Fortna | School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies". menas.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ a b "Professor Benjamin Fortna | SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ "Alumni Placement | Middle Eastern Studies". mes.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ global.oup.com https://global.oup.com/academic/product/imperial-classroom-9780199248407?cc=pl&lang=en&. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Benjamin Fortna | History". history.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ "Robert Fortna Obituary (2017) - Poughkeepsie, NY - Poughkeepsie Journal". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- meet any of the eight academic-specific criteria
- or cite multiple reliable, secondary sources independent of the subject, which cover the subject in some depth
Make sure your draft meets one of the criteria above before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If the subject does not meet any of the criteria, it is not suitable for Wikipedia.