The Decease of Šeyḵ al-Movarreḵin

The present paper is written on the occasion of the Turk hardworking historiographer, Halil Inalçık’s decease at the age of one hundred on Mordad 4, 1395. After reviewing his biography from his childhood up to the time when he joined the Faculty of Language, History and Geography of the University of Ankara, Turkish and foreign Foundations of Historiography, his valuable works on the Ottoman history, especially based on the archival documents of Turkey and abroad, particularly England: British Museum, the U.K. Archive, The school of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have been studied. In addition to introducing the nature of some of the archival documents and the archives were consulted by him which were the inspiration source of his works. Some of the Turkish and European researchers of the Ottoman history such as Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, Mehmet Fuad Köprülü, Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan, Ahmet Refik, Osman Turan, Paul Wittek, Franz Babinger, Bernard Lewis have been introduced.
The current study covers a time period extends till the early years of Ināljiq teaching, its second part demonstrates ups and downs of his progress process towards the high position of a ‘world historian’ and ‘Şeyhu’l-Muvarrihin’.