# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gulru-necipoglu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:09.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gulru-necipoglu"
name: "Gülru Necipoğlu"
slug: "gulru-necipoglu"
description: "Gülru Necipoğlu is a Turkish American professor of Islamic Art/Architecture. She has been the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University since 1993, where she started teaching as assistant professor in 1987. She received her Harvard Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (1986), her BA in Art History at Wesleyan, her high school degree in Robert College, Istanbul (1975). She is married to the Ottoman historian and Harvard University professor Cemal Kafadar. Her sister is the historian Nevra Necipoğlu."
tagline: "Turkish art historian (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Necipoglu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.55
  momentum:             0.8695652173913043
  historical:           4.81296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جولرو نيسيبوجلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClru_Necipo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gülru Necipoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%A8%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "گلرو نجیب‌اوغلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClru_Necipo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gülru Necipoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClru_Necipo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Gülru Necipoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31189938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump