ISBN:
081563093X
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 419 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. ed., [Nachdr.]
Series Statement:
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
DDC:
320.54095667
Keywords:
Kurds History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
;
Kurdistan History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
;
Kurden
;
Nationalbewegung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Geographical, historical, and cultural background -- The social organization of the Kurds -- The suppression of the semiautonomous regimes in Kurdistan -- Shaykh Ubayd Allah of Nehri -- The impact of the young Turk revolution on Kurdish nationalism -- Russia's Kurdish policy -- The Kurds and World War I -- The situation of the Kurds in Turkey, Persia, and Syria after World War I -- Disorder in the Mosul and Arbil Divisions of Iraqi Kurdistan after world war I -- Shaykh Mahmud and the rise and fall of the south Kurdish confederation in Iraqi Kurdistan after World War I -- Shaykh Mahmud's second rebellion -- The Kurdish rebellions in Turkey -- The Barzani rebellion of 1931-1932 -- The Barzani rebellion of Mulla Mustafa, 1943-1945, and the growth of Kurdish political organizations -- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad -- The Kurds and the Kurdish question after the fall of Mahabad
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
