Routledge Handbook on the Kurds by Gunter, Michael M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents List of maps Introduction Part I Kurdish studies

1 Kurdish Studies in the United States 2 Kurdish studies in Europe

Part II Early Kurdish history

Part III Kurdish culture

6 Ehmedê Xanî’s Mem û Zîn 7 Classical and modern Kurdish literature 8 Calibrating Kurmanji and Sorani 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

Part VI Geography and travel

16 The geopolitics of the Kurds since World War I 17 Roaming Iraqi Kurdistan

Part VII Women

18 Kurdish women

Part VIII The Kurdish situation in Turkey

Part IX The Kurdish situation in Iraq

Part X The Kurdish situation in Syria

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