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The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society


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Éditeur : The Isis Press Date & Lieu : 2000, Istanbul
Préface : Pages : 320
Traduction : ISBN : 975-428-162-9
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 165x235 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Bru. Mul. N° 1791Thème : Religion

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The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society

Mullas, Suhs and Heretics:
The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society


Martin Van Bruinessen

The Isis Press

"Compared to the unbeliever, the Kurd is a Muslim" (ft gora gawiri Kurd misilman e). I do not recall where I First heard or read this unflattering Kurdish saying, but it was uttered with a certain pride.1 I suspect that it was originally a Turkish or Arabic saying; it is the sort of thing people who feel that they are better Muslims than the Kurds would say. In fact, one often comes across beliefs and practices in Kurdistan that are hard to reconcile with Islamic orthodoxy. Kurdish nationalists of the 1920s and 1930s were fascinated with, and took pride in, such deviations from Islam, "the Arabian religion," interpreting them as rebellions of the Kurdish spirit against Arab and Turkish domination. During its first years the nationalist cultural magazine Hawar, published in Syria from 1932 to 1943 by Djeladet and Kamran Bedir-Khan, showed a great interest in Zoroastrism as one of the sources of Kurdish cultural identity. With its Zoroastrian roots, the Yezidi religion, which had long been discriminated against and condemned as "devil worship," was idealised by some nationalists as the Kurdish religion par excellence.
But these nationalists were a tiny minority, and the followers of all heterodox sects combined form only a small fraction of the Kurds. The vast majority are Muslims, and many of them take ...


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The religious mosaic
1. "Religion in Kurdistan",
Kurdish Times (Brooklyn, New York), vol. 4 nos. 1-2, 1991, 5-27 / 13

2. "The Kurds and Islam",
This chapter grew out of lectures I gave in Paris and Tokyo in the course of 1998. The present version was published as Working Paper No. 13, Islamic Area Studies Project, Tokyo, Japan, 1999. Another version appeared as the introduction to a special issue (titled "Islam des Kurdes") of the journal Les Annales de I'Autre Islam (No. 5, Paris, 1998) that I edited with Joyce Blau / 37

3. "The Christians of Eastern Turkey, the state and the local power structure"
This paper was originally written as an expert's report submitted to the Netherlands Council of State when this was reviewing the trial of a group of Syrian Orthodox asylum seekers, October 8, 1978. It was published in ICMC Migration News no. 3-4(1979), 40-46 / 59

Learning and mysticism in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries

4. "Religious life in Diyarbekir: religious learning and the role of the tariqats",
Originally a section of the introduction to: Martin van Bruinessen and Hendrik Boeschoten, Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988, pp. 45-52. I have made some additions to the original text to allow it to stand by itself / 69

5. "The Naqshbandi order in 17th-century Kurdistan",
First published in: Marc Gaborieau, Alexandre Popovic et Thierry Zarcone (ed), Naqshbandis: cheminements et situation actuelle d'un ordre mystique musulman. Istanbul-Paris: Editions Isis, 1990, 337-360 / 87

6. "The impact of Kurdish ‘ulama on Indonesian Islam",
A revised version of "Kurdish ‘ulama and their Indonesian students", in: De Turcicis aliisque rebus commentarii Henry Hofman dedicati [= Utrecht Turcological Series, vol. 3]. Utrecht: Instituut voor Oosterse Talen en Culturen, 1992, pp. 205-227. The present version was also published in Les Annales de VAutre Islam 5 (1998), 83-106 / 111

7. "A nineteenth century Kurdish scholar in South Africa",
Revised version, with additional information, of a brief notice that was originally published as the final section of "Kurdish ‘ulama and their Indonesian students" and that was left out in the later version of that paper / 133

The social and political roles of sufi orders in Kurdistan

8. "Popular Islam, Kurdish nationalism and rural revolt: The rebellion of Shaikh Said in Turkey (1925)", First published in: Janos M. Bak and Gerhard Benecke (eds.), Religion and Rural Revolt. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984, pp. 281-295 / 143

9. "Vom Osmanismus zum Separatismus: Religiose und ethnische Hintergriinde der Rebellion des Scheich Said", First published in: Jochen Blaschke & Martin van Bruinessen (Hrsg), Islam und Politik in der Tiirkei. Berlin: EXpress Edition, 1985 (Reprinted: Berlin: Parabolis, 1989), pp. 109- 165 / 159

10. "The Sadate Nehri or Gilanizade of Central Kurdistan",
Appeared in Journal for the History of Sufism 1 (1999) / 199

11. "The Qadiriyya and the lineages of Qadiri shaykhs in Kurdistan",
Appeared in Journal for the History of Sufism 1 (1999) / 213

12. "Sûfîs and sultans in Southeast Asia and Kurdistan: a comparative survey",
First published in Studia Islamika (Jakarta), vol. 3, no.3 (1996), 1-20 / 231

Heterodox religious formations in Kurdistan

13. "When Haji Bektash still bore the name of Sultan Sahak. Notes on the Ahl-i Haqq of the Guran district", First published in: Alexandre Popovic & Gilles Veinstein (eds), Bektachiyya: etudes sur 1'ordre mystique des Bektachis et les groupes relevant de Hadji Bektach. Istanbul: Editions Isis, 1995, pp. 117-138 /245

14. "Haji Bektash, Sultan Sahak, Shah Mina Sahib and various avatars of a running wall",
Revised version of an article that first appeared in Turcica XXI- XXIII, 1991,55-69 / 271

15. "The Shabak, a Kizilbash community in Iraqi Kurdistan",
Les Annales de I'Autre Islam 5 (1998), 185-196 / 295

16. General Bibliography / 305




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