The Cambridge history of the Kurds / edited by Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes, Veli Yadirgi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bozarslan, Hamit, editor.

Yadirgi, Veli, editor.

Gunes, Cengiz, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--History.

Kurds.

Kurds--Politics and government.

Kurdistan--History.

Kurdistan.

Middle East--Ethnic relations.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 936 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Kurds and the Kurdish Question in the Middle East

Part I Historical Legacies

1 The Rise and Fall of the Kurdish Emirates (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

2 Negotiating Political Power in the Early Modern Middle East: Kurdish Emirates between the Ottoman Empire and Iranian Dynasties (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

3 The End of Kurdish Autonomy: The Destruction of the Kurdish Emirates in the Ottoman Empire

4 The Kurdish Movement and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1880-1923

5 Religious Narrations of the Kurdish Nation during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

6 The Political Economy of Kurdistan: From Development to De-development

Part II Regional Political Developments and the Kurds in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

7 Kurds and Kurdish Nationalism in the Interwar Period

8 From Tribal Chiefs to Marxist Activists: Kurdistan from 1946 to 1975

9 Kurdish Politics across the Middle East during the 1970s

10 Dark Times: Kurdistan in the Turmoil of the Middle East, 1979-2003

11 Kurds in a New Century: Prospects and Challenges

Part III Domestic Political Developments and the Kurds in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

12 Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey, 1898-2018

13 Why Autonomy Hasn't Been Possible for Kurds in Turkey

14 The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1991-2018

15 Street Protest and Opposition in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

16 Minority, State and Nation: Kurdish Society in Iran in the Aftermath of the Revolution

17 The Kurdish Question in Syria, 1946-2019

18 The Yezidis in the Soviet Union

Part IV Religion and Society

19 Religion in Kurdistan.

20 Religion and Politics in Turkey's Kurdistan from the Beginning of the Republic

21 'Kurdish' Religious Minorities in the Modern World

22 The Kurdish Alevis: The Followers of the Path of Truth (Raa Haq/Riya Heqi)

23 Tribes and Their Changing Role in Kurdish Politics and Society

Part V Kurdish Language

24 The History of Kurdish and the Development of Literary Kurmanji

25 The History and Development of Literary Central Kurdish

26 The Kırmanjki (Zazaki) Dialect of Kurdish Language and the Issues It Faces

Part VI Art, Culture and Literature

27 From the Wandering Poets to the Stateless Novelists: A Short Introduction to Kurdish Literary History

28 A History of Kurdish Poetry

29 A History of Kurdish Theatre

30 A Cinematography of Kurdishness: Identity, Industry and Resistance

31 Kurdish Art and Cultural Production: Rhetoric of the New Kurdish Subject

Part VII Transversal Dynamics

32 A People beyond the State: Kurdish Movements and Self-determination in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

33 Kurdish Transnational Indigeneity

34 Kurdish Diaspora: A Transnational Imagined Community

35 The Women's Movement in Kurdistan-Iraq

36 A Struggle within a Struggle: A History of the Kurdistan Women's Freedom Movement, 1978-2019

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

ISBN:

9781108583015

1108583016

9781108674072

1108674070

9781108623711

1108623719