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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

معزز إلمية تشيغ

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Bursa

Turkish archaeologist and writer (1914–2024) specialising in Sumerian and Hittite civilisation, who lived to 110. Born at Bursa to Crimean Tatar parents, she studied Hittitology at Ankara University under refugee German scholars, then spent decades at Istanbul's Museum of the Ancient Orient cataloguing thousands of cuneiform tablets. She became famous for books tracing narratives of the Quran, the Torah and the Gospel to Sumerian antecedents, and for her secularist advocacy; tried in 2006 for inciting religious hatred over her headscarf thesis, she was acquitted. She died at Mersin aged 110.

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Scholar · writer
Region
Anatolia
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Halil İnalcık · Walid Khalidi · Ali Hassan Mwinyi · Roger Garaudy · M. S. Swaminathan

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Bursa

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    People and things also explored

    Yesil Mosque, Bursa· The capital moves from Bursa to Edirne· The great Bursa earthquake of 1855· Bursa in the Turkish war of independence· Conquest of Bursa· Jem Sultan hailed at Bursa for eighteen days· Kalenderoğlu plunders Bursa· The Karamanid siege of Bursa

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    • Muazzez İlmiye Çığ — English Wikipedia
    • Muazzez İlmiye Çığ — Turkish Wikipedia
    • Muazzez İlmiye Çığ — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Muazzez İlmiye Çığ”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muazzez-ilmiye-cig/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-31.

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    Yesil Mosque, Bursa

    Draft card for the Yesil (Green) Mosque of Bursa, built for Sultan Mehmed I and famed for its green tilework; a landmark of early Ottoman architecture per the cited survey, the page not yet checked.