On the frontiers of empire: Culture and power in early modern “Iranian” Kurdistan
- D. R. Bajalan
- Linguistics
- 17 May 2017
This article will provide a broad (although by no means comprehensive) overview of the development of modern scholarly historical writing pertaining the Middle East’s Kurdish community prior to the…
The Kurds and their History: New Perspectives
- D. R. Bajalan, S. Karimi
- Political Science
- 5 August 2014
For many years academic study of the Kurds—their language, culture, politics and history—was a marginal field within the broader arena of Middle Eastern Studies. This marginality can be said to be,…
Şeref Xan's Sharafnama: Kurdish Ethno-Politics in the Early Modern World, Its Meaning and Its Legacy
- D. R. Bajalan
- Sociology
- 6 December 2012
This paper critically analyzes the Sharafnama, a history of the Kurds, written by the late sixteenth century ruler of Bitlis, Şeref Xan. Given the politically sensitive nature of the Middle East's…
Princes, Pashas and Patriots: The Kurdish Intelligentsia, the Ottoman Empire and the National Question (1908–1914)
- D. R. Bajalan
- Political Science
- 25 January 2016
AbstractThis article surveys the attitude of the Ottoman-Kurdish intelligentsia and the nascent Kurdish movement towards the issue of nationality in the period between the 1908 Constitutional…
Between Conformism and Separatism: A Kurdish Students’ Association in Istanbul, 1912 to 1914
- D. R. Bajalan
- History
- 1 September 2013
This article is an examination of the ‘Kurdish Students’ Hope Society’ – a youth-led Kurdish organization founded in the Ottoman imperial capital, Istanbul, in 1912. The article contends that the…
Kurdish Responses to Imperial Decline: The Kurdish Movement and the End of Ottoman Rule in the Balkans (1878 to 1913)
- D. R. Bajalan
- LinguisticsKurdish Studies
- 2 June 2019
Focusing on the period between 1878 and 1913, this paper seeks to add to the growing literature highlighting the complexities of identity in the late Ottoman period through an examination of the…
The First World War, the End of the Ottoman Empire, and Question of Kurdish Statehood: A ‘Missed’ Opportunity?
- D. R. Bajalan
- HistoryA Century of Kurdish Politics
- 22 November 2018
Abstract Historians who have examined the ‘failure’ of the Kurds to obtain statehood in the immediate aftermath of the First World War have, understandable, closely examined the lobbying efforts…
The Kurdish Movement and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1880–1923
- D. R. Bajalan
- History
- 22 April 2021
Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870–1915, edited by Joost Jongerden and Jelle Verheij
- D. R. Bajalan
- History
- 10 June 2014
Between accommodationism and separatism : Kurds, Ottomans and the politics of nationality (1839-1914)
- D. R. Bajalan
- History, Sociology
- 2015
This dissertation examines the origins and development of ethno-national mobilisation amongst the Kurds of the Ottoman Empire in the decades leading up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.…
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