Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Transliteration
• Introduction. The Origins of the Kurds—Myths, History, and Modern Politics
• 1. Kurdish Distinctiveness under Arab, Persian, and Turkish Dominance
• 2. The Era of Ottoman and Iranian Rule
• 3. The Demise of Kurdish Emirates in the Nineteenth Century
• 4. Seeds of Kurdish Nationalism in the Declining Ottoman Empire
• 5. The Beginnings of Modern Kurdish Politics
• 6. The Kurds and Kurdistan during World War I
• 7. The Kurds and the New Middle East after the Ottomans
• Conclusion. From Distinctiveness to Nationalism—Continuing Issues of Kurdish Collective Identity
• Maps
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Michael Eppel is professor emeritus at the University of Haifa and Oranim College of Education. He is the author of The Palestine Conflict in the History of Modern Iraq and Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny.