num_pages: 964
description: The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social political and economic features forces and evolution amongst the Kurds and in the region known as Kurdistan from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender diaspora political economy tribes cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
language: English
title: The Cambridge History of the Kurds
publisher: Cambridge University Press