| Summary: | German Scholar Cellarius, in periodization of history grounded on Christian “trinity” based system, secularized this system and reached a final level. After him, Triple Periodic System became a de facto rule and used until today. Periodization of European originated history also directly affected world and Turkish historiography and determined it. Beginning from Ottoman period the duration till today, historical events have been determined and their periodization done in accordance with this system. Turkish-Islamic History, being pretty rich content and past, with the rules of this system is put into molding of “Old Age”, “Middle Age”, New and Modern Age” and analyzed in the rules of this system. Both academic and popular history studies are wholly made of in accordance with this system. * Prof. Dr., Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü. E-posta: necmettinalkan@gmail.com Actually it is a wrongdoing attaching and analyzing World, Islamic and Turkish history is accordance with this triple system. In this triple system, Islamic and Turkish history are “deactivated” and “de-historicized”. Though its these important negative effects Turkish historians have not arranged a serious criticism on this system and they did not produce an alternative historical periodization. This issue should be discussed and a new historical aging system should be developed.
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