{"product_id":"agha-shaikh-and-state-the-social-and-political-structures-of-kurdistan-9781856490191","title":"Agha, Shaikh and State: The Social and Political Structures of Kurdistan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExacerbated by the Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds is one of the most urgent problems facing the international community. This authoritative study of the Kurdish people provides a deep and varied insight into one of the largest primarily tribal communities in the world. It covers the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the great Kurdish revolt against republican Turkey, the birth of Kurdish nationalism and the situation of the Kurdish people in Iraq, Turkey and Iran today.  Van Bruinessen's work is already recognized as a key contribution to this subject. Tribe by tribe, he accounts for the evolution of power within Kurdish religious and other lineages, and shows how relations with the state have played a key constitutive role in the development of tribal structures. This is illustrated from contemporary Kurdish life, highlighting the complex interplay between traditional clan loyalties and their modern national equivalents.  This book is essential to any Middle East collection. It has serious implications for the study of tribal life elsewhere, and it documents the history of what has until recently been a forgotten people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow this book came to be written\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject of this study\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA note on the written sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. General Information on Kurdistan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeopolitical situation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePopulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOther economic activities: crafts\/industries and trades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReligion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Kurdish national movement, 1960-85\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIranian Kurdistan and the Islamic Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Iran-Iraq war and the Kurds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaddam Hussein's solution to the Kurdish question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecent changes in Turkey's attitude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Tribes, Chieftains and Non-tribal Groups\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tribe and its subdivisions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKurdish terms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlood feud and other conflicts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigher than the tribe?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeadership and conflicts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeadership: titles and functions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe guest-house\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEconomic aspects: tribute to the agha\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeadership situation among a number of different tribes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePower as a process: the colonization of the northern Jazira\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject 'non-tribal' peasantry and their relations with tribal Kurds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe guran and the Guran\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNomads and peasants: one or two peoples?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Tribes and the State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe incorporation of Kurdistan into the Ottoman Empire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe political history of some Kurdish emirates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdministrative organization of Ottoman Kurdistan in the sixteenth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecentury\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal organization of the Kurdish emirates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical changes in the nineteenth century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe rise of Bedr Khan Beg and the fall of the emirate of Botan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe new land code and its effects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe establishment of Kurdish tribal militias: the Hamidiye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMustafa Pasha of the Miran\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIbrahim Pasha of the Milan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanges in the early twentieth century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Shaikhs: mystics, saints and politicians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroductory remarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod incarnate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDervish and sufi orders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSufi and dervish orders: organized popular mysticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe history of the Qadiri order as an example\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQadiri shaikhs in Kurdistan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Naqshbandi tariqa and the Naqshbandi order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy did the Naqshbandi order spread so rapidly?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRituals of the Qadiri order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Naqshbandi ritual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShaikh and khalifa: relations with other shaikhs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe shaikh and his followers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMillenarianism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecline of the shaikhs' influence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIslamic revival: the Nurcu movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Shaikh Said's Revolt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory of Kurdish national consciousness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe end of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first Kurdish political organizations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShaikh Said's revolt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExternal and internal support for the revolt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Naqshbandi order and the revolt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe religious versus the nationalist character of the revolt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771661451607,"sku":"9781856490191","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781856490191.jpg?v=1758728699","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/agha-shaikh-and-state-the-social-and-political-structures-of-kurdistan-9781856490191","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}