A People Without a State : : The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism / / Michael Eppel.
Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on transliteration
- Introduction. The origins of the kurds— myths, history, and modern politics
- Chapter 1. Kurdish Distinctiveness under Arab, Persian, and Turkish Dominance
- Chapter 2. The Era of Ottoman and Iranian Rule
- Chapter 3. The Demise of the Kurdish Emirates in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 4. Seeds of Kurdish Nationalism in the Declining Ottoman Empire
- Chapter 5. The Beginnings of Modern Kurdish Politics
- Chapter 6. The Kurds and Kurdistan during World War I
- Chapter 7. The Kurds and the New Middle East after the Ottomans
- Conclusion. From Distinctiveness to Nationalism— Continuing Issues of Kurdish Collective Identity
- Maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index