The Kurds : nationalism and politics / edited by Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod.
Publication details: London : Saqi, 2006.Description: 344 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780863568251 (hardback)
- 0863568254 (hardback)
- 956.00491597 23 K97
- DS59.K86 K865 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-337) and index.
Foreword : Ethnicity, nationalism and the unitary state in the Middle East : the case of the Kurds / Faleh A. Jabar and Hosham Dawod -- Part one : Defining Kurdish nationalism -- Can we write a modernist history of Kurdish nationalism? / Fred Halliday -- Kurdish paths to nation / / Martin van Bruinessen -- The Kurds and their 'others' : fragmented identity and fragmented politics / Abbas Vali -- Ethnicity and power : some reflections on ethnic definitions and boundaries / Hosham Dawod -- Part two : Society, language, culture and history -- Religion and ethnicity as politicized boundaries / Sami Zubaida -- Refinement and oppression of Kurdish language / Joyce Blau -- Tying down the territory : conceptions and misconceptions of early Kurdish history / Maria O'Shea -- Tribal Asabiyya and Kurdish politics : a socio-historical perspective / Hamit Bozarslan -- Part three : Kurds in Iraq -- Urbanization, privatization, and patronage : the political economy of Iraqi Kurdistan / Michael Leezenberg -- Fayli Kurds of Baghdad and the Ba'ath regime / Saad B. Eskander -- Political Islam among the Kurds / Michael Leezenberg -- Part four : Post-conflict Iraq -- Federalism and the Kurds of Iraq : the solution or the problem? / Michael M. Gunter -- Finding a dangerous equilibrium : internal politics in Iraqi Kurdistan - parties, tribes, religion and ethnicity reconsidered / Gareth Stansfield -- Arab nationalism versus Kurdish nationalism : reflections on structural parallels and discontinuities / Faleh A. Jabar.