The Political and Cultural History of the Kurds

ISBN-13: 9781433182129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Amir Harrak

Opis

The book describes the politics, culture and history of the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contemporary 'Arab Spring'. This anthology is dedicated to the memory of Professor Amir Hassanpour and examines his contribution to Kurdish scholarship.

Spis treści

Blair Kuntz, Daniela Ansovini and Mahdi Ganjavi: A Revolutionary Commitment: Amir Hassanpour's Vision and Achievement in the Preservation of Kurdish History, Culture and Struggle - Abdel Razzaq Takriti: The Kurd and the Wind: The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian- Kurdish Affiliation - James A. Reilly: Kurds and the State in Modern Syria - Hashem M. Karami and David Romano: Sub- state Actors and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Case of Kurdish Forces in Iraq and Syria - Susan Benson- Sokmen: 'Fighting Side by Side with their Men': The Mount Ararat Uprising and the Erasures of (Some) Histories of Women's Resistance - Thomas M. Ricks: Kurdish Historiography and Missionary Eyewitness Accounts of Kurdish Society and Culture in the Hattari Mountains and in the Headwaters of the Euphrates and Zab Rivers - Michael L. Chyet: Vedikim vs. Divekim: More on Neo- Aramaic Influence on Kurdish - Fadi Ragheb: New Sources on the Memory of Saladin in Islamic History: An Explorative Essay into the Arabic Chronicles of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period- Amir Harrak: Aqra of Iraqi Kurdistan: Its Geography and History in Cuneiform, Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic Sources - Index.

O autorze

Amir Harrak is Professor of Aramaic and Syriac at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies (Journal of the CSSS) and the founder and the current president of the CSSS. He has a doctorate in Assyriology from the University of Toronto and two Licence degrees in Art History and Oriental Philology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. His latest publications include The Chronicle of Zuqnin Parts I-II from the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD (2017); The Monastery of Mar Behnam à la période Atabeg - XIII^e S.: L'Art au Service de la Foi, Cahiers d'Études Syriaques 5 (2018); and The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian: Books XV-XXI (2019).