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

Born in Russian Caucasia, 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 to develop the Department of Near Eastern Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.^[1] In 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.^[2] 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.^[3]
  


• “Six Thousand Years of Persian Art”, The Art News, XXXVIII/30 (April 27, 1940), 7–19.


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See also

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  Weibel, Adèle Coulin (1951). "Mehmet Aga-Oglu (1896-1949)". Ars Islamica. Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan. 15/16: 267–271.
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