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Idris Bitlisi had arrived to offer to deliver up Kurdistan to the Ottomans for a mere 25,000 gold ducats.
An overwhelming majority of Muslim and non-Muslim Kurds are followers of one of many mystic Sufi orders (or tariqa). The bonds of…
The history of Judaism in Kurdistan is ancient. The Talmud holds that Jewish deportees were settled in Kurdistan 2800 years…
About three-fifths of the Kurds, nearly all of them Kurmânji speakers, are today at least nominally Sunni Muslims of the…
The followers of the Yezidi religion, who have variously referred to themselves also as the Yazidi, Yazdâni, Izadi, and Dasna’i,…
Most non-Muslim Kurds follow one of several indigenous Kurdish faiths of great antiquity and originality, each of which is a…
The infusion of an Indo-European (Iranic) language, culture, and genetic element into the Kurdish population over the two millennia preceding…
Notes on Kurdish Political Naiveté By Prof. Mehrdad R. Izady, 1995 The head of Egypt’s celebrated Sphinx is collapsing. To…
The Economist THEIR history is full of tales of persecution, betrayal and desperate flight. But few Kurdish fables are as…