# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timur-kuran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:29.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/timur-kuran"
name: "Timur Kuran"
slug: "timur-kuran"
description: "Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist currently serving as a professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His research lies at the intersection of economics, political science, history, and law."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Timur_Kuran_11-2003(hi-res).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.246575342465753
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump