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Mehmet Aga-Oglu (24 August 1896 – 4 July 1949), was a Turkish Islamic art historian.

Born in Erivan, Russian Caucasia (today Armenia), Mehmet earned a doctorate history, philosophy, and Islamic languages from the University of Moscow.[1] By 1921 he was at the University of Istanbul, where he studied Islamic art and Ottoman history. Whilst in Berlin, Aga-Oglu would study under Dr. Ernst Herzfeld in Near Eastern architecture.[1]

In 1926 he earned a Ph.D. and in 1927 the Islamic Department of the National Museum in Istanbul appointed Mehmet as curator.[1] In 1929, Mehmet was appointed by Wilhelm Valentiner to develop the Department of Near Eastern Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,[1] and published his first of several articles in the DIA Bulletin. [2] 1933, he was made chair of the History of Islamic Art at University of Michigan,[1] and was the first professor of Islamic art in the United States.[3] Aga-Oglu was the first editor of the scholarly journal Ars Islamica, beginning in 1934.[4] He would teach at the University of Michigan until 1938 as a Freer Fellow and Lecturer.[1] Mehmet Aga-Oglu died in 1949.[1]

Publications

• Persian Bookbindings of the Fifteenth Century, Mehmet Aga-Oglu, University of Michigan Press.
• Dictionary of Islamic Artists, ed. Ernst Kuhnel, Gaston Wiet, and Mehmet Aga-Oglu.[5]
• “Six Thousand Years of Persian Art”, The Art News, XXXVIII/30 (April 27, 1940), 7–19.
• Aga-Oglu, M. (November 1931). "On a Manuscript by Al-Jazari". Parnassus. 3 (7): 27–28. doi:10.2307/770698. JSTOR 770698. JSTOR

See also

• Weibel, Adèle Coulin (1951). "Mehmet Aga-Oglu (1896-1949)". Ars Islamica. Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan. 15/16: 267–271. JSTOR
• Simavi, Zeynep. 2012. "Mehmet Aga-Oglu and the formation of the field of Islamic art in the United States." Journal of Art Historiography. 1–25. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/19552

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