Routledge handbook on the Kurds

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- List of maps -- Introduction -- PAR I: Kurdish studies -- 1 Kurdish studies in the United States -- 2 Kurdish studies in Europe -- PART II: Early Kurdish history -- 3 The Kurdish emirates: Obstacles or precursors to Kurdish nationa...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gunter, Michael M. 1943- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London New York : Routledge, 2019
Schlagworte:Kurds
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 483 Seiten)
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- List of maps -- Introduction -- PAR I: Kurdish studies -- 1 Kurdish studies in the United States -- 2 Kurdish studies in Europe -- PART II: Early Kurdish history -- 3 The Kurdish emirates: Obstacles or precursors to Kurdish nationalism? -- 4 An overview of Kurdistan of the 19th century -- 5 The development of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey from Mahmud II to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- PART III: Kurdish culture -- 6 Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn: The consecration of a Kurdish national epic -- 7 Classical and modern Kurdish literature -- 8 Calibrating Kurmanji and Sorani: Proposal for a methodology -- 9 Kurdish cinema -- PART IV: Economic dimensions -- 10 The oil imperative in the KRG -- 11 De-development in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia -- PART V: Religion -- 12 Islam and the Kurds -- 13 The inadequate Islamic grappling with the Kurdish issue -- 14 The Jewish communities in Kurdistan within the tribal Kurdish society -- 15 Yezidi baptism and rebaptism: Resilience, reintegration, and religious adaptation -- PART VI: Geography and travel -- 16 The geopolitics of the Kurds since World War I: Between Iraq and other hard places -- 17 Roaming Iraqi Kurdistan -- PART VII: Women -- 18 Kurdish women -- PART VIII: The Kurdish situation in turkey -- 19 The rise of the pro-Kurdish democratic movement in Turkey -- 20 The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdish political parties in the 1970s -- 21 Turkey's Kurdish complexes and its Syrian quagmire -- PART IX: The Kurdish situation in Iraq -- 22 The state we're in: Postcolonial sequestration and the Kurdish quest for independence since the First World War -- 23 The disputed territories of Northern Iraq: ISIS and beyond -- 24 The continuing problem of KRG corruption
25 The Russian historical and political approach towards nonconventional independence of Iraqi Kurdistan -- PART X: The Kurdish situation in Syria -- 26 The Kurdish PYD and the Syrian Civil War -- 27 The evolution of Kurdish struggle in Syria: Between Pan-Kurdism and Syrianization, 1920-2016 -- 28 The roots of democratic autonomy in Northern Syria-Rojava -- PART XI: Iran -- 29 Iran and the Kurds -- PART XII: The Kurdish diaspora -- 30 The future of the Kurdish diaspora -- 31 Diasporic conceptions of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- 32 The Kurds in Germany -- 33 The Kurdish diaspora in the UK -- Notes on contributors -- Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 483 Seiten) Karten
ISBN:9781317237990
1317237994
9781138646643
1138646644