Accepted by Arnold Toynbee and, more importantly, with some reservations by H. Lybyer's definition (1913) of the Ruling and Muslim Institutions of the Ottoman empire, a thesis that argued that the military/administrative elite of the Ottoman empire was dominated by Christian converts to Islam and that the Muslim Institution was filled with Muslim-born individuals. In 'Eighteenth Century Ottoman Realities,' Itzkowitz took aim at Albert H. One piece of advice that Itzkowitz often gave to graduate students was to find the biggest plate glass window and throw a brick through it. One of the few scholars of that time working on eighteenth-century Ottoman history, Itzkowitz's most influential piece of scholarship was his article 'Eighteenth Century Ottoman Realities,' which appeared in Studia Islamica 16 (1962). Itzkowitz was the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including a Buitoni Scholarship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship, a Proctor and Gamble Fellowship, two US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Near East Central Grants for Study Abroad, an SSRC Travel Grant, a Littauer Foundation Fellowship, and a Center for International Studies Fellowship. In 2001 Itzkowitz retired from teaching and joined the ranks of the emeritus professors. He also directed numerous NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for elementary, secondary, and college teachers. In addition to his teaching, Itzkowitz served as the Master of Wilson College, a residential college, from 1975 to 1989, on the Committee on Undergraduate Life, and as a faculty advisor to the fencing and lacrosse teams. Thomas much more attractive.' In 1958 Itzkowitz joined the faculty of the Departments of History and Oriental Languages and Literatures as an instructor and the following year completed his dissertation, 'Mehmed Raghib Pasha: The Making of an Ottoman Grand Vezir.' In 1961 he was hired as an assistant professor in the just renamed Department of Oriental Studies, in 1966 he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1973 he achieved the rank of professor. Following the advice of his advisor, Hans Kohn, he entered Princeton's Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures that fall to study Persian, but he 'soon found the field of Turkish studies embodied in the person of mentor Lewis V.

He attended Stuyvesant High School and the City College of New York, graduating in 1953 with a major in history-winning the Cromwell Medal in History-and varsity letters in lacrosse and fencing. Itzkowitz was born in 1931 on the Lower East Side of New York. Norman Itzkowitz, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, passed away on January 20, 2019, at the age of 87.

Genghis Khan by Norman Itzkowitz