The Cambridge History of the Kurds. (2021). In H. Bozarslan, C. Gunes, & V. Yadirgi (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the Kurds (pp. I-Ii). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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.
Table of contents
Introduction
The Kurds And The Kurdish Question In The Middle East
By Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes, Veli Yadirgi
Part I – Historical Legacies
1 – The Rise and Fall of the Kurdish Emirates (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
By Boris James
2 – Negotiating Political Power in the Early Modern Middle East
Kurdish Emirates Between The Ottoman Empire And Iranian Dynasties Sixteenth To Nineteenth Centuries
By Metin Atmaca
3 – The End of Kurdish Autonomy
The Destruction Of The Kurdish Emirates In The Ottoman Empire
By Sabri Ates
4 – The Kurdish Movement and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1880–1923
By Djene Rhys Bajalan
5 – Religious Narrations of the Kurdish Nation during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
By Kamal Soleimani
6 – The Political Economy of Kurdistan
From Development To De Development
By Veli Yadirgi
Part II – Regional Political Developments and the Kurds in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
7 – Kurds and Kurdish Nationalism in the Interwar Period
By Metin Yüksel
8 – From Tribal Chiefs to Marxist Activists
Kurdistan From 1946 To 1975
By Béatrice Garapon, Adnan Çelik
9 – Kurdish Politics across the Middle East during the 1970s
By Cengiz Gunes
10 – Dark Times
Kurdistan In The Turmoil Of The Middle East 1979 2003
By Hamit Bozarslan
11 – Kurds in a New Century
Prospects And Challenges
By Mehmet Gurses, David Romano
Part III – Domestic Political Developments and the Kurds in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
12 – Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey, 1898–2018
By Mesut Yeğen
13 – Why Autonomy Hasn’t Been Possible for Kurds in Turkey
By Derya Bayır
14 – The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1991–2018
By Gareth Stansfield
15 – Street Protest and Opposition in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
By Nicole F. Watts
16 – Minority, State and Nation
Kurdish Society In Iran In The Aftermath Of The Revolution
By Massoud Sharifi Dryaz
17 – The Kurdish Question in Syria, 1946–2019
By Jordi Tejel
18 – The Yezidis in the Soviet Union
By Estelle Amy de la Bretèque
Part IV – Religion and Society
19 – Religion in Kurdistan
By Michiel Leezenberg
20 – Religion and Politics in Turkey’s Kurdistan from the Beginning of the Republic
By Mehmet Kurt
21 – ‘Kurdish’ Religious Minorities in the Modern World
By Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Khanna Omarkhali
22 – The Kurdish Alevis
The Followers Of The Path Of Truth Raa Haq Riya Heqi
By Erdal Gezik
23 – Tribes and Their Changing Role in Kurdish Politics and Society
By Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes
Part V – Kurdish Language
24 – The History of Kurdish and the Development of Literary Kurmanji
By Ergin Öpengin
25 – The History and Development of Literary Central Kurdish
By Jaffer Sheyholislami
26 – The Kırmanjki (Zazaki) Dialect of Kurdish Language and the Issues It Faces
By Mehemed Malmîsanij
Part VI – Art, Culture and Literature
27 – From the Wandering Poets to the Stateless Novelists
A Short Introduction To Kurdish Literary History
By Hashem Ahmadzadeh
28 – A History of Kurdish Poetry
By Farangis Ghaderi
29 – A History of Kurdish Theatre
By Mari R. Rostami
30 – A Cinematography of Kurdishness
Identity Industry And Resistance
By Bahar Şimşek
31 – Kurdish Art and Cultural Production
Rhetoric Of The New Kurdish Subject
By Engin Sustam
Part VII – Transversal Dynamics
32 – A People beyond the State
Kurdish Movements And Self Determination In The Twentieth And Twenty First Centuries
By Joost Jongerden, Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya
33 – Kurdish Transnational Indigeneity
By Ipek Demir
34 – Kurdish Diaspora
A Transnational Imagined Community
By Barzoo Eliassi
35 – The Women’s Movement in Kurdistan-Iraq
By Choman Hardi
36 – A Struggle within a Struggle
A History Of The Kurdistan Women S Freedom Movement 1978 2019
By Isabel Käser
Index