“Thou, God, must not allow the Kurds to unify; their unification would cause the destruction of the world" (Prophet Mohammad’s saying reported by the medieval Turkish historian Khuja Sadaddin.) The author examines the role of religion in Kurdish national aspirations, with particular reference to the manner in which it affects the relationship between Kurds living in Iraq and attempts to integrate Iraqi Kurds into the Iraqi state.Aram Rafaathttp://www.jspes.org/spring2012_rafaat.htm
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The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of the religion and language, Islam Kurdish, in the...
During recent years the Kurdish question has reappeared, more intensely than before, on the internat...
This article seeks to address the problem of historiography and perspective in Middle East studies c...
Objectives Our study, wants to point out to the fact that there are also opposing trends indicating ...
How do Kurdish Islamists navigate the dilemma of having to relate to Islamism and nationalism at the...
The Kurds inhabit an area known as Kurdistan, which roughly includes the Zagros and Taurus mountain ...
Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity analyses the role of reli...
Kurdish ulema, a religious class with a strong influence on Kurdish social life, have developed vari...
The Kurds are an ancient Indo-European people who are different from any of the neighbouring nations...
For centuries, Kurds have been carrying out activities aimed at obtaining their own state. Due to th...
After Turkish, Arabic and Persian, Kurdish is the fourth language of the Middle East in number of s...
In this article I discuss the ways in which the Turkish state uses Islam as a weapon to delegitimize...
This article is a review of a book published in the Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. Th...
The aim of this article is to analyze so-called Kurdish problem in three countries with important Ku...
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shocked the world when it entered the world stage in 2014...
The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of the religion and language, Islam Kurdish, in the...
During recent years the Kurdish question has reappeared, more intensely than before, on the internat...
This article seeks to address the problem of historiography and perspective in Middle East studies c...
Objectives Our study, wants to point out to the fact that there are also opposing trends indicating ...