Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities
The diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the challenges and opportunities for their representation and politics. Yet little scholarship has focused on the complexities within these different groups and the range of their experiences. This book diversifies the literature on Kurdish Studies by offering close analyses of subjects which have not been adequately researched, and in particular, by highlighting the Kurds' relationship to the Yazidis. Case studies include: the political ideas of Ehmede Xani, “the father of Kurdish nationalism”; Kurdish refugees in camps in Iraq; the perception of the Kurds by Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turks in modern Western Turkey; and the important connections and shared heritage of the Kurds and the Yazidis, especially in the aftermath of the 2014 ISIS attacks.

The book comprises the leading voices in Kurdish Studies and combines in-depth empirical work with theoretical and conceptual discussions to take the debates in the field in new directions. The study is divided into three thematic sections to capture new insights into the heterogeneous aspects of Kurdish history and identity. In doing so, contributors explain why we need to pay close attention to the shifting identities and the diversity of the Kurds, and what implications this has for Middle East Studies and Minority Studies more generally.
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Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities
The diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the challenges and opportunities for their representation and politics. Yet little scholarship has focused on the complexities within these different groups and the range of their experiences. This book diversifies the literature on Kurdish Studies by offering close analyses of subjects which have not been adequately researched, and in particular, by highlighting the Kurds' relationship to the Yazidis. Case studies include: the political ideas of Ehmede Xani, “the father of Kurdish nationalism”; Kurdish refugees in camps in Iraq; the perception of the Kurds by Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turks in modern Western Turkey; and the important connections and shared heritage of the Kurds and the Yazidis, especially in the aftermath of the 2014 ISIS attacks.

The book comprises the leading voices in Kurdish Studies and combines in-depth empirical work with theoretical and conceptual discussions to take the debates in the field in new directions. The study is divided into three thematic sections to capture new insights into the heterogeneous aspects of Kurdish history and identity. In doing so, contributors explain why we need to pay close attention to the shifting identities and the diversity of the Kurds, and what implications this has for Middle East Studies and Minority Studies more generally.
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Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

by Günes Murat Tezcür (Editor)
Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

by Günes Murat Tezcür (Editor)

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The diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the challenges and opportunities for their representation and politics. Yet little scholarship has focused on the complexities within these different groups and the range of their experiences. This book diversifies the literature on Kurdish Studies by offering close analyses of subjects which have not been adequately researched, and in particular, by highlighting the Kurds' relationship to the Yazidis. Case studies include: the political ideas of Ehmede Xani, “the father of Kurdish nationalism”; Kurdish refugees in camps in Iraq; the perception of the Kurds by Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turks in modern Western Turkey; and the important connections and shared heritage of the Kurds and the Yazidis, especially in the aftermath of the 2014 ISIS attacks.

The book comprises the leading voices in Kurdish Studies and combines in-depth empirical work with theoretical and conceptual discussions to take the debates in the field in new directions. The study is divided into three thematic sections to capture new insights into the heterogeneous aspects of Kurdish history and identity. In doing so, contributors explain why we need to pay close attention to the shifting identities and the diversity of the Kurds, and what implications this has for Middle East Studies and Minority Studies more generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780755601202
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/28/2021
Series: Kurdish Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Günes Murat Tezcür is the Jalal Talabani Chair of Kurdish Political Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida where he also directs the Kurdish Political Studies Program. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (2021) and A Century of Kurdish Politics (2019) and published the monograph Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey (2010).
Günes Murat Tezcür is the Jalal Talabani Chair of Kurdish Political Studies at the University of Central Florida, USA

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards a Cross-Fertilization between Kurdish and Yezidi Studies, Günes Murat Tezcür

Section I - Formations: Kurdish and Yezidi Political Identities
Chapter 2 Ehmedê Xanî's Political Philosophy in Mem û Zîn, Mücahit Bilici
Chapter 3 Historical and Political Dimensions of Yezidi Identity before and After the Firman (Genocide) of 3 August 2014, Majid Hassan Ali
Chapter 4 Political Identity of Kurdish Refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Arzu Yilmaz
Chapter 5 Survival, Coexistence, and Autonomy: Yezidi Political Identity after Genocide, Günes Murat Tezcür, Zeynep Kaya, and Bayar Sevdeen

Section II - Perceptions: Kurds and Yezidis in the Eyes of Others
Chapter 6 Paying the Price of Dasht-i Karbala: Perceptions of Yezidis in the Ottoman Era, Bahadin H. Kerborani
Chapter 7 Orientalist Views of Kurds and Kurdistan, Zeynep Kaya
Chapter 8 'White Man's Burden' or Victim's Hope(lessness): Armeno-Kurdish Relations and Mutual Perceptions before Genocide , Ohannes Kiliçdagi
Chapter 9 Turkish Public Opinion on Cultural and Political Demands of Kurds, Ekrem Karakoç&Ege Özen
Chapter 10 'We are Yezidi, being otherwise never stopped our persecution': Yezidi Perceptions of Kurds and Kurdish Identity, Tutku Ayhan

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