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Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds
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In this article, the authors present a thorough review of nearly all relevant aspects of Kurd Studies concerning the ethnic history, identity, religion, language, and literature of the Kurds, making extensive use of all available data and materials, including ancient and mediaeval, particularly those previously examined with regard to related topics.Abstract:
The article presents a thorough review of nearly all relevant aspects of Kurdish Studies concerning the ethnic history, identity, religion, language, and literature of the Kurds. Elaborating upon the respective issues, the author makes extensive use of all available data and materials, including ancient and mediaeval, particularly those never previously examined with regard to related topics. The objective examination of most crucial problems of the field contributes to a better understanding of Kurdish prehistory, expanding, at the same time, the basic methodological concepts upon which further research should be grounded. Due to the politicised nature of Kurdological disciplines, many ideological elements of non-academic provenance, that have found their way into the scholarly milieu in recent decades and have become a constant set of stereotypes and cliches, have been highlighted in the paper.read more
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The Political-Religious Relations between the Kurds and the Ottoman Empire
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the Kurds have been able to survive under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire, which was formerly considered as a substitute for the previous Islamic caliphate that ruled based on shari'a.
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Una leggenda in laki da Darb-e Gonbad (Lorestān, Iran)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a popular legend in the Kakevandi variety of Laki, giving an interesting insight into folk beliefs and practices related to the emāmzade of Šahzade Moḥammad, a shrine located in the rural village of Darb-e Gonbad (Northern Lorestān).
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Islam in Kurdistan: Religious Communities and Their Practices in Contemporary Northern Iraq
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On the lexical stress patterns of Ilami Kurdish
TL;DR: Ilami is a right-bounded quantity-sensitive variety as far as monomorphemic words are considered, and the stress pattern of compound words in Ilami Kurdish violates the main-left (C) universal constraint according to which a clitic group is left- headed.
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Zazaki : Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Wiesbaden, L. Reichert, 1998, xxi- 366 p. (Beiträge zur Iranistik ; 18).
TL;DR: In this article, a hasard fait que paraissent la meme annee deux ouvrages en allemand consacres l'un et l'autre a une langue iranienne occidentale relativement negligee (in comparaison du kurde notamment), le zaza.
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Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey
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Persia and the Greeks
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The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East
TL;DR: The investigation of the genetic relationship among three Jewish communities revealed that Kurdish and Sephardic Jews were indistinguishable from one another, whereas both differed slightly, yet significantly, from Ashkenazi Jews.
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Ethnic Kurds in Turkey: A Demographic Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make as accurate an estimate of the number of Kurds in Turkey and of their geographical distribution as the data permit, and the question of the geographical distribution of the Kurds and non-Kurds in Turkey gives an idea of the extent of the likely population exchange should the Kurds ever form a separate state.