The Kurds in Iran: The Quest for Identity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acronyms ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I
8. Kurdish Nationalism in Comparative Perspective 15
9. Historical Setting: The Roots of Modern Kurdish Nationalism 37
10. The Dual Relationship between Kurdish Tribalism and Nationalism 63
11. PART II
12. Kurdish Integration in Iraq: The Paradoxes of Nation Formation and Nation Building 83
13. The Evolution of National Identity and the Constitution-Drafting Process in the Kurdistan-Iraq Region 99
14. Forging Iraqi-Kurdish Identity: A Case Study of Kurdish Novelists Writing in Arabic 119
15. PART III
16. A Tale of Political Consciousness: The Rise of a Nonviolent Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey 137
17. The Role of Language in the Evolution of Kurdish National Identity in Turkey 155
18. The Kurdish Women in Turkey: Nation Building and the Struggle for Gender Parity 175
19. PART IV
20. The Kurds in Syria: Caught between the Struggle for Civil Equality and the Search for National Identity 193
21. Toward a Generational Rupture within the Kurdish Movement in Syria? 215
22. PART V
23. The Kurds in Iran: The Quest for Identity 233
24. The Nostalgic Republic: The Kurdish Republic of 1946 and Its Effect on Kurdish Identity and Nation Building in Iran 253
25. Conclusion: The Kurdish Momentum 269
26. Notes 283
27. Bibliography 325
28. Contributors 349
29. Index 355