Agha, Shaikh and State

The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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Beskrivning

Exacerbated by the Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds is one of the most urgent problems facing the international community. This authoritative study of the Kurdish people provides a deep and varied insight into one of the largest primarily tribal communities in the world. It covers the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the great Kurdish revolt against republican Turkey, the birth of Kurdish nationalism and the situation of the Kurdish people in Iraq, Turkey and Iran today.Van Bruinessen's work is already recognized as a key contribution to this subject. Tribe by tribe, he accounts for the evolution of power within Kurdish religious and other lineages, and shows how relations with the state have played a key constitutive role in the development of tribal structures. This is illustrated from contemporary Kurdish life, highlighting the complex interplay between traditional clan loyalties and their modern national equivalents.This book is essential to any Middle East collection. It has serious implications for the study of tribal life elsewhere, and it documents the history of what has until recently been a forgotten people.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1991-10-04
Mått:138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt:543 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781856490191

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Dr Martin van Bruinessen is a distinguished social anthropologist and a Fellow of the Kurdish Institute in Paris.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionHow this book came to be writtenSubject of this studyA note on the written sources1. General Information on KurdistanGeographyGeopolitical situationPopulationOther economic activities: crafts/industries and tradesLanguageReligionThe Kurdish national movement, 1960-85Iranian Kurdistan and the Islamic RevolutionThe Iran-Iraq war and the KurdsSaddam Hussein's solution to the Kurdish questionRecent changes in Turkey's attitude2. Tribes, Chieftains and Non-tribal GroupsThe tribe and its subdivisionsKurdish termsBlood feud and other conflictsHigher than the tribe?Leadership and conflictsLeadership: titles and functionsThe guest-houseEconomic aspects: tribute to the aghaLeadership situation among a number of different tribesPower as a process: the colonization of the northern JaziraSubject 'non-tribal' peasantry and their relations with tribal KurdsThe guran and the GuranNomads and peasants: one or two peoples?Conclusion3. Tribes and the StateIntroductionThe incorporation of Kurdistan into the Ottoman EmpireThe political history of some Kurdish emiratesAdministrative organization of Ottoman Kurdistan in the sixteenthcenturyInternal organization of the Kurdish emiratesPolitical changes in the nineteenth centuryThe rise of Bedr Khan Beg and the fall of the emirate of BotanThe new land code and its effectsThe establishment of Kurdish tribal militias: the HamidiyeMustafa Pasha of the MiranIbrahim Pasha of the MilanChanges in the early twentieth centuryConclusions4. Shaikhs: mystics, saints and politiciansIntroductory remarksGod incarnateDervish and sufi ordersSufi and dervish orders: organized popular mysticismThe history of the Qadiri order as an exampleQadiri shaikhs in KurdistanThe Naqshbandi tariqa and the Naqshbandi orderWhy did the Naqshbandi order spread so rapidly?Rituals of the Qadiri orderThe Naqshbandi ritualShaikh and khalifa: relations with other shaikhsThe shaikh and his followersMillenarianismDecline of the shaikhs' influenceIslamic revival: the Nurcu movement5. Shaikh Said's RevoltIntroductionHistory of Kurdish national consciousnessThe end of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of TurkeyThe first Kurdish political organizationsShaikh Said's revoltExternal and internal support for the revoltThe Naqshbandi order and the revoltThe religious versus the nationalist character of the revolt