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Studies in Kurdish History: Empire, Ethnicity and Identity book cover

1st Edition

Studies in Kurdish History Empire, Ethnicity and Identity

Edited By Djene Rhys Bajalan, Sara Zandi Karimi Copyright 2015
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Recent events in the Middle East have propelled the once marginalized Kurdish community to the centre of regional and, indeed, world affairs. The growing significance of the Kurds in the politics of the Middle East has led to greater interest amongst both academics and policy makers regarding the community’s culture, politics and history. This current volume seeks to address this growing interest... Read more

1. Introduction: The Kurds and their History: New Perspectives

Djene Rhys Bajalan and Sara Zandi Karimi

2. Arab Ethnonyms (‘Ajam, ‘Arab, Badū and Turk): The Kurdish Case as a Paradigm for Thinking about Differences in the Middle Ages

Boris James

3. Elî Teremaxî and the Vernacularization of Medrese Learning in Kurdistan

Michiel Leezenberg

4. In the Name of the Caliph and the Nation: The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880–81

Sabri Ateş

5. The Rise of Red Kurdistan

Harun Yilmaz

6. The Kurds and Settlement Policies from the Late Ottoman Empire to Early Republican Turkey: Continuities and Discontinuities (1916–34)

Serhat Bozkurt

7. The Kurdish Cultural Movement in Mandatory Syria and Lebanon: An Unfinished Project of "National Renaissance," 1932–46

Jordi Tejel Gorgas

Biography

Djene Rhys Bajalan is a lecturer in the department of Social Sciences at the American University of Iraq Suliamani.

Sara Zandi Karimi is a researcher and holds an M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford.

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