Ruben Safrastyan
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Ruben Safrastyan | |
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Ռուբեն Սաֆրաստյան | |
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| Born | October 5, 1955 |
| Citizenship | Armenia |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
| Spouse | Lilit Safrastyan |
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| Awards | Movses Khorenatsi medal |
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| Thesis | Doctrine of Ottomanism in the political life of the Ottoman Empire (50s and 70s of 19th century) (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hovhannes Injikyan |
Ruben Arami Safrastyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Արամի Սաֆրաստյան; born 5 October 1955) is an Armenian historian and Turkologist who specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, genocide, Middle Eastern and regional studies. He is currently a professor of history and Turkish studies at Yerevan State University and a full member (Oriental Studies) of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Institute of Oriental Studies from 2006 to 2020. He has also served as a counsellor of the Armenian Embassy in Germany.[1]
Safrastyan has authored or edited more than 40 books and more than 220 articles and papers. He is also the founding editor of the academic periodicals Turkic and Ottoman Studies (since 2002) and Contemporary Eurasia (2012-2020), as well as editor of the academic yearbook Countries and Peoples of the Near and Middle East (Yerevan, Armenia). Since 2021, he has served as the Counselor of the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.[2][3]
