Kurds and Kurdistan, History and Culture is another project of the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia. The preparatory stages of this series began in January 2007 with bibliographical works, collecting sources, and preparing scientific files. Now authors of various nationalities are compiling the first articles of this series. The Kurd and Kurdistan series will be published in six volumes.
The first and second volumes are dedicated to the geography of the distribution of Kurds in Iran and neighboring regions and their ancient history. In these two volumes, after introducing and reviewing the sources of Kurdology and Iranology in various languages, the geography of Kurdish settlement throughout history will be examined. This study commences with the arrival of Aryans in Iran and the geography of Kurdistan as a subset of the Iranian plateau. In the following, the history of Kurdish people, from the migration of the Aryans to the end of the Sasanian reign, is examined in detail. A large part of these two volumes will be dedicated to Kurdish and Median ethnic unity (Kurds and Aryans) and a review of other views on this subject. The mythical history of the Kurds, which is mentioned in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and other sources, will be the final part of this section.
The subject of the third and fourth volumes is the political history of the Kurds from the beginning of the Islamic era in Iran until the end of the First World War. These two volumes will begin with introducing and reviewing historical, archaeological, linguistic, and other sources in various languages. The political history of the Kurds as a part of the Islamic-Iranian society will be examined during the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates, symmetrical governments, Ghaznavid, Seljuq, Khwarazmshahi, Mughal, Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajar periods. Moreover, the Kurdish-Iranian governments outside the geographical frontiers of the Iranian plateau, such as the Ayyubid government of Egypt and Syria (the Levant) and the Ottoman Kurds, are studied in these two volumes. A chief part of these two volumes will investigate the contexts and causes of the separation of a large part of the Kurdish region from Iran and its annexation to the Ottoman territory.
The subject of the fifth and sixth volumes is the cultural and social history of Kurds and Kurdistan. After introducing and reviewing the sources, linguistics, alphabet and script, literature, education, art, anthropology, religion, and science in Kurdish regions will be studied in these two volumes. The central part of this project is the Kurdish language and its literary and historical connection with other Iranian languages. In this section, their proximity and even their same historical origin will be revealed by comparing words, expressions, and proverbs of Kurdish and other Iranian languages.
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