The Kurds A Contemporary Overview
Edited by Philip G.Kreyenbroek and Stefan Sperl London and New York
First published 1992 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Reprinted 1995, 1997, 2000 © 1992 Philip G.Kreyenbroek and Stefan Sperl Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. ªTo purchase your own copy of this or any of T aylor & Francis or Routledge's collecti on of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.º All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Kurds: a contemporary overview. 1. Kreyenbroek, Philip G., 1948± II. Sperl, Stefan, 1950± 305.89159 ISBN 0-203-99341-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-07265-4 (Print Edition) Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
Contributors
Hamit Bozarslan is a Member of the Equipe de Recherches sur la Turquie et l'Iran contempora in, CERI, Paris. Martin van Bruinessen is a frequent visitor to Kurdistan and a well-known specialist on Kurdish affairs. Jane Connors is a lecturer in the Law Department of SOAS, London. Kurdish affairs are among her special fields of interest. Fereshteh Koohi-Kamali is an Oxford-trained specialist in the modern history of the Middle East generally, and of the Kurds in particular. Philip G.Kreyenbroek is Lecturer in Modern Iranian Languages at SOAS; he is currently working on religious movements in Kurdistan, and on oral traditions in Iranian languages. David McDowall is a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, and author of several publications on the Kurds and the Palestinians. Munir Morad is a Member of the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS. A.Sherzad is a Kurdish researcher currently studying the influence of `modernity' on Kurdish culture and politics. Stefan Sperl is currently Lecturer in Arabic at SOAS; he worked for UNHCR for ten years, and has a special interest in Kurdish refugees. Ismet Chériff Vanly has represented the Kurdish people at an international level for many decades, and has published widely on Kurdish affairs. Sami Zubaida, a well-known specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, lectures at Birkbeck College, London. |