Yuri Bregel | |
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 Bregel in SRIFIAS library in Goodbody Hall at Indiana University, Bloomington in May 2010. | |
| Born | Yuri Enohovich Bregel 13 November 1925 |
| Died | 7 August 2016 (aged 90) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Ph.D., Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Spouse |
Liliya "Liusia" Bregel
(m. 1924–2009) |
Yuri Enohovich Bregel (Russian: Юрий Энохович Брегель; 13 November 1925 – 7 August 2016) was one of the world's leading historians of Islamic Central Asia. He published extensively on Persian- and Turkic-language history and historiography, and on political, economic and ethnic history in Central Asia and the Muslim world.[1][2] He lived in the Soviet Union (1925–1974), Israel (1974–1981), and the United States (1981–2016).
- ^ DeWeese, 1.
- ^ "YURI BREGEL". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 August 2016.