Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period

Stefan Winter is professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and visiting professor at Koç University.Zainab HajHasan is a PhD candidate in history at Koç University and a language instructor at ANAMED (Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) in Istanbul.

• List of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviations of Archival CollectionsIntroduction Part One: Kurdish Origins and Territorialities in Diachronic Perspective1. Nusaybin under the OttomansTom Sinclair 2. The Qizilbash Reconsidered: The Role of the Kurdish Arabgirlu Tribe in the Early Safavid StateMustafa Dehqan and Vural Genç 3. The ʿAfrin District under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1921Stefan Winter Part Two: Kurds in Western and Urban Syria4. Locating the Kurds in Ottoman Jordan and Palestine in the Sixteenth CenturyZainab HajHasan 5. The Lebanese Junblats and the Canbolads: A Case of Mistaken IdentityAbdul Rahim Abu-Husayn 6. Warlords and Landlords: The Kurdish Presence in Central Syria in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesDick Douwes Part Three: Kurdish Tribalism and Tribal Control in the Jazira7. Waqf versus Miri Nomads: Taxation, Endowment, and Settlement Practices in Northern Syria in the Eighteenth CenturyKeiko Iwamoto 8. Bekir Bey and the Making of a Reşwan Kurd Nobility at RumkaleMuhsin Soyudoğan9. The Berazi Tribe of Suruj and Their Rebellion in the Tanzimat PeriodMuhsin Seyda 10. The Reşwan in Central Anatolia: Tribal Settlement and Sheep Trade in the Nineteenth CenturyYonca Köksal 11. Warfare and Alliances in Raʾs al-ʿAyn: Hamidiye Regiments, Bedouin Tribes, and Ottoman Governors, 1895–1905Erdal Çiftçi Part Four: Syrian Kurdish Elites of the Late Ottoman Period12. Kurdish Naqshbandi-Khalidi Sheikhs of Damascus in the Nineteenth CenturyMetin Atmaca 13. Alliances and Competition in Kurdish Networks in Late Ottoman Syria: The Example of the Bedirhani and Baban FamiliesBarbara Henning14. Between Ottomanism and Kurdism: Mehmed Salih Bedirhan and ʿAbd al-Rahman Yusuf in DamascusMartin Strohmeier Afterword Contributors Index