The Cambridge History of the Kurds

2021/04/13 by Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes, Veli Yadirgi · 33 citations
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Islamic Studies and History #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East #Politics #Diaspora #Folklore #Fifteenth #History #Style (visual arts) #Political science #Ancient history #Geography #Archaeology #Law

paper · doi:10.1017/9781108623711

published in Cambridge University Press eBooks (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

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.

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