Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Illustrations vii
4. Archival Series Abbreviations ix
5. Map 1
6. Introduction 3
7. Part One: Kurdish Origins and Territorialities in Diachronic Perspective
8. 1 Nusaybin under the Ottomans 17
9. 2 The Qizilbash Reconsidered: The Role of the Kurdish Arabgirlu Tribe in the Early Safavid State 56
10. 3 The ʿAfrin District under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1921 75
11. Part Two: Kurds in Western and Urban Syria
12. 4 Locating the Kurds in Ottoman Jordan and Palestine in the Sixteenth Century 111
13. 5 The Lebanese Junblats and the Canbolads: A Case of Mistaken Identity 128
14. 6 Warlords and Landlords: The Kurdish Presence in Central Syria in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 137
15. Part Three: Kurdish Tribalism and Tribal Control in the Jazira
16. 7 Waqf versus Miri Nomads: Taxation, Endowment, and Settlement Practices in Northern Syria in the Eighteenth Century 161
17. 8 Bekir Bey and the Making of a Reşwan Nobility at Rumkale 179
18. 9 The Berazi Tribe of Suruj and Their Rebellion in the Tanzimat Period 207
19. 10 The Reşwan in Central Anatolia: Tribal Settlement and Sheep Trade in the Nineteenth Century 223
20. 11 Warfare and Alliances in Raʾs al-ʿAyn: Hamidiye Regiments, Bedouin Tribes, and Ottoman Governors, 1895–1905 243
21. Part Four: Syrian Kurdish Elites of the Late Ottoman Period
22. 12 Kurdish Naqshbandi-Khalidi Sheikhs of Damascus in the Nineteenth Century 273
23. 13 Alliances and Competition in Kurdish Networks in Late Ottoman Syria: The Example of the Bedirhani and Baban Families 287
24. 14 Between Ottomanism and Kurdism: Mehmed Salih Bedirhan and ʿAbd al-Rahman Yusuf in Damascus 308
25. Afterword 337
26. Contributors 347
27. Index 351