Cornell Fleischer (October 23, 1950 – April 21, 2023) was an American historian and the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago.
This work formed the basis of his book, Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (Princeton University Press, 1986).
He was also the co-editor with Gülrü Necipoğlu and Cemal Kafadar of Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4) (Brilll, 2019) and authored numerous articles.
He later became the inaugural holder of the Kanuni Süleyman Chair in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Chicago.
He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and was presented with the Order of Merit, Turkey’s highest civilian order, by President Gül.He was also a former director of the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the editorial board of Historians of the Ottoman Empire.