Historical dictionary of the Kurds

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Éditeur : Scarecrow	Date & Lieu : 2004-01-01, Maryland
Préface : \|	Pages : 314
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-8108-4870-8
Langue : Anglais	Format : 144x222 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. 1427	Thème : Politique

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Versions: The A to Z of the Kurds [Lanham, 2009] Historical dictionary of the Kurds This historical dictionary of the Kurds contains mainly historical and political entries, with an emphasis on topics closer to the present day. Nevertheless, I have sought to include the most important earlier names and events, too. In addition, I have included a number of entries on important cultural, economic, and social topics, among others. As an aid to readers, many of the entries have extensive cross-references in boldface type. There inevitably is a certain amount of subjectivity when choosing topics for entries. Furthermore, I am sure that I have simply neglected to provide entries on topics that deserved to be included. Therefore, I welcome suggestions from readers for additional entries in any future edition. In writing a dictionary on the Kurds in the English language, I have attempted to simplify the transliteration of names and terms as much as possible. Given the rich variety of spellings among Western scholars and the linguistic differences among the Kurds themselves, it was not possible to be completely consistent in my transliterations. Rather, I have used spellings that are most comfortable to me, an English-speaking reader and writer. Although the purist might object, the result should be that readers will be easily able to identify quickly what they are reading about. In some cases, Kurds and those who write about them most commonly use the Kurdish term, while in others they use the English. To compound the inconsistency, Kurdish acronyms are sometimes commonly employed with full English terms. The Kurdistan Workers Party, commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, PKK, is a good example. By contrast, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are usually known by both their English full names and their English acronyms. Therefore, by seeking to use the terms that seem to me most common, I have not been consistent in regard to language. Nevertheless, the result is that I have used terms that readers should most easily recognize. In most entries, I have sought to use both full Kurdish and English names upon first mention. Another problem of consistency involves the birth and death years in many of the entries on persons. Because of the unsettled conditions usually prevailing in Kurdistan, even today, many Kurds simply do not know when they were born. Therefore, I have not been able to list dates for all my person entries. This problem becomes even greater for historical figures. Nevertheless, I have been able to establish the dates for a number of persons and have entered them when I could. The result is an obvious inconsistency in my entries, although they have the merit of giving as much information as they can. Again, I would welcome comments from my readers, some of whom may undoubtedly help fill in a few of the numerous gaps here...


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SCARECROW PRESS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Scarecrow Press, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.scarecrowpress.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2004 by Michael M. Gunter All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gunter, Michael M. Historical dictionary of the Kurds / Michael M. Gunter. p. cm. — (Historical dictionaries of people and cultures; no. 1) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8108-4870-8 1. Kurds—History—Dictionaries. I. Title. II. Series. DS59.K86 G86 2003 956.6’7’003—dc21 2003011652 ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America. Michael M. Gunter (B.A. Columbia University; M.I.A. Columbia University; Ph.D. Kent State University) is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, USA, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1972. Earlier, he taught at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. In 1978–79, he taught as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in International Relations at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Recently, he also has taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; the International University in Vienna, Austria; and Shanghai Xuhui College of Education in Shanghai, China. Professor Gunter is the author of a number of scholarly, acclaimed books dealing with the Kurds, including The Kurdish Predicament in Iraq: A Political Dilemma (1999); The Kurds and the Future of Turkey (1997); The Kurds of Iraq: Tragedy and Hope (1992); and The Kurds in Turkey: A Political Dilemma (1990). He also coedited Kurdish xodus: From Internal Displacement to Diaspora (2002) and The Kurdish Question and International Law (2000). In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles on the Kurds in such prestigious journals as the Middle East Journal, Orient, Current History, Middle East Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and PS: Political Science and Politics, among many others. Professor Gunter has been invited to speak on various aspects of the Kurdish issue by a number of different government agencies in the United States, as well as many scholarly conferences both in the United States and broad.