--- title: "3 Caroline Finkel Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "Turkish-British historian (born 1950)... | Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history fro..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-caroline-finkel-85599.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Caroline Finkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-caroline-finkel-85599.jpg) # Caroline Finkel (1949) Historian **3** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Caroline Finkel is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Caroline Finkel Born November 30, 1949 Profession Historian ## About Caroline Finkel Turkish-British historian (born 1950)... \| Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey; she has a doctorate in Ottoman history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. ## Quotes by Caroline Finkel > [“To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as ‘evil empire’, ‘fundamentalist’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-finkel/to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-and-historically-different/) Caroline Finkel [History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/caroline-finkel-85599_history_to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-a_610031.jpg) > [“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-finkel/but-why-should-1299-ce-be-considered-the-founding-date-of-the-empire/) Caroline Finkel [Freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/caroline-finkel-85599_freedom_but-why-should-1299-ce-be-considered-the_1591633.jpg) > [“He saw that a moon arose from the holy man’s breast and came to sink in his own breast. A tree then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-finkel/he-saw-that-a-moon-arose-from-the-holy-man-s-breast-and-came-to-sink/) Caroline Finkel [Holy man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/holy-man/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/709/caroline-finkel-85599_holy-man_he-saw-that-a-moon-arose-from-the-holy-m_1761248.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-finkel/#itemlist", "name": "Caroline Finkel Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as ‘evil empire’, ‘fundamentalist’ and ‘terrorist’ to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why ‘they’ are not like ‘us’, to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of ‘what went wrong?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Caroline Finkel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-finkel/to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-and-historically-different/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/caroline-finkel-85599_history_to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-a_610031.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/caroline-finkel-85599_history_to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-a_610031.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e42/caroline-finkel-85599_history_to-understand-those-who-are-culturally-a_610031.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such…” — Caroline Finkel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of independence or storming of a bastille. 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