TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amir Harrak
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2701-3030
SN  - 9781433183485
TI  - The Political and Cultural History of the Kurds
DO  - 10.3726/b17492
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062267
N2  - This volume, a contribution to the emergent interdisciplinary field of Kurdish Studies, is an engagement with the politics, culture and history of the Kurds. Sections of the book treat the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contemporary ‘Arab Spring’, as well as their language, culture and geography and historiographical issues. Individual chapters focus on the rich cultural history of the Kurds, their language, literary history, their political struggle for self-determination and the participation of women in the resistance movement, and on the encounters of missionaries with Kurdish society as well as on the poetics and politics of the Kurds and Palestinians. The first section examines the contribution to Kurdish scholarship of Professor Amir Hassanpour to Kurdish scholarship, and this anthology is dedicated to his memory. Professor Hassanpour was a prominent Marxist scholar whose revolutionary commitment to preserve, enrich and expand Kurdish history, culture and struggle is inspirational.
LA  - English
ER  -