# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arif-dirlik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:36:41.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arif-dirlik"
name: "Arif Dirlik"
slug: "arif-dirlik"
description: "Arif Dirlik was a Turkish-American historian who published on historiography and political ideology in modern China, as well as issues in modernity, globalization, and postcolonial criticism."
tagline: "Turkish-American historian (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arif_Dirlik_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-11-23"
deathDate: "2017-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.684198666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "阿里夫·德里克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Dirlik"
    title: "Arif Dirlik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Dirlik"
    title: "Arif Dirlik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84%DA%A9"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arif Dirlik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дирлик, Ариф"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Dirlik"
    title: "Arif Dirlik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Dirlik"
    title: "Arif Dirlik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arif_Dirlik"
    title: "Arif Dirlik"
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    title: "عارف ڈارلک"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump