Top products from r/kurdistan
We found 31 product mentions on r/kurdistan. We ranked the 21 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. The Miracle of the Kurds: A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
3. The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts (Kurdish Studies Book 2)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
5. Traditional Kurdish Food: An insight into Kurdish culinary heritage
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
6. The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria (Islamic Art in the Mediterranean)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
8. From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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9. Road through Kurdistan: The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
10. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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11. Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture and Society (Written Culture and Identity)
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
12. Politics Among Nations
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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14. To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
16. The Sharafnama: or the History of the Kurdish Nation, 1597
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
17. The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
18. After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters With Kurdistan
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
Slaw brader! I urge you to learn the Kurdish language (whether Kurmanji or Sorani, which is closest to your family's origin) and try to pass it on to forthcoming generations, whether your own kids or friends/relatives who are also Kurdish. It's the most important aspect to our culture and it's what kept us alive after all this time. It also helps you interact with our music of course and learn the meaning behind the texts, some of which might be culturally inspired.
Literature wise, here are some books that help you understand the Kurdish politics a bit better and where we stand today and what we have endured as people in the recent past.
https://www.amazon.com/After-Knowledge-Forgiveness-Encounters-Kurdistan/dp/0813335809
https://www.amazon.com/Kurdish-National-Movement-Development-Contemporary/dp/081563093X
https://www.amazon.com/Mesopotamia-Kurdistan-Disguise-Banister-Soane/dp/1602069778
Music wise, some prolific singers are the following:
Omer Dzhey, Hassan Zirak. Most importantly, the national anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fne64RysKmA
Respect!
> All in all, the current Kurdish States are very young and I would like to watch them grow up.
Yes it takes a long while though! I'm about finding and powering significant Kurdish individuals, citizens of world whom make positive impact. Because if you look at the crowd and current political state, it's a bit of cluster mess.
Yeah, although I was born after Gulf war, but still had experience with S.H. horror stories and if you dig deep, you will find some similar trends still going on among kurds vs kurds these days.
If you got a chance, try contacting folks from the American Uni in Sulaimani. You can find a good bunch of educated folks.
Also here are my recommendations to learn more about the Kurds:
Invisible Nation
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Second Edition
The Miracle of the Kurds
I support the development of a fully enforceable rules-based system of international law which would form a proper foundation for the effective eradication of genocide, etc. - but no such system currently exists. Accordingly, at present the best approach is the one very systematically detailed by Hans J. Morgenthau in Politics Among Nations.
Ozlem Belcim Galip holds a PhD in Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter. She was Calouste Gulbenkian Postdoctoral fellow at the Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford where she also taught Kurdish. During her post-doctorate, she mainly worked on the representation of Armenian Genocide in Turkish and Kurdish novels. Currently, She is Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and her research mainly concerns the activism of Kurdish migrant women in selected host European countries (France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and the UK) in terms of artistic, literary and cultural practices in both the language(s) of the host countries and the women’s native Kurdish language. Her research interests include Kurdish and Turkish novelistic discourse, Armenian Studies, Kurdish-related research from gender and anthropological perspectives, cultural production and intellectual activity in diaspora.
Marie Curie Fellow
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ozlem-belcim-galip
https://twitter.com/ozlemgalip
https://www.instagram.com/ozlembelcimgalip/?hl=en
She has the ongoing project with the title of "From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals” has been accepted by European Commission under Marie Curie Fellowship.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/214093/factsheet/en
She is also working on a documentary with the title of "Anywhere on This Road"
She has the published book with the title of "Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture and Society"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imagining-Kurdistan-Identity-Culture-Society/dp/1784530166
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/imagining-kurdistan-9780857726438/
Well, at least here in Britain it has quite a classist connotation. You find these upper middle class people just spouting the word around for anyone that doesn't speak perfect (or their version) of English, is generally poorer (working class), and now it has become associated with someone who scrounges off benefits. As you can see from the definition, it's pejorative - I just think that all it does is deepen the divide between haves and have nots...
An excellent book I would recommend is:
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784783773/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_gQSmxb7WDTNC8
I got me a nice Kurmanci-English dictionary. Weights 2.5 kilos and I am sure I can kill a man with it. It also has many other useful things in it. I am very happy with it - Kurdish-English Dictionary: Ferhenga Kurmanci-Inglizi
this one is the best:
https://www.amazon.com/Kurds-Concise-History-Fact-Book-ebook/dp/B00YUY70W8/
if you need for Rojava, this one is freshly published:
https://www.amazon.com/Kurds-Northern-Syria-Governance-Diversity-ebook/dp/B07VT7WYCX/
Yezidis have ancient Mesopotamian origin. They were followers of an ancient Mesopotamian religion. Yezidis claim that their religion is over 6,000 years old, predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They influenced or added influences from the 3 major religions in the Middle East. Christianity because they both share similarities. Some aspects of Yezidism appear to derive from both Judaism and Islam. And contain elements of much earlier religious beliefs. Maybe you can find more about them inside this book. https://www.amazon.com/Heirs-Forgotten-Kingdoms-Disappearing-Religions/dp/0465049915/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1572558888&refinements=p_27%3AGerard+Russell&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Gerard+Russell
Hey, Please check [Sharafnama] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Sharafnama-History-Kurdish-Nation/dp/1568590741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413355853&sr=8-1&keywords=sharafnama)
this is the oldest documented kurdish history, as for your request about the last centuries, Russian writers mostly have books about Kurds, but i dont recall their names.
https://www.amazon.com/Memed-My-Hawk-Yashar-Kemal/dp/159017139X
There is supposedly a famous road, called The Hamilton road which I was thinking of following.
http://www.aaronswwadventures.com/2013/10/iraq-kurdistan-hamilton-road/
http://www.roadthroughkurdistan.com/the-road
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Through-Kurdistan-Travels-Northern/dp/1850436371
Perhaps you know Turkish? There's a Turkish translation of that book: 'Selahaddin ve Kürtler'.
There seem to be a lot of books on Saladin. This one seems highly rated: http://www.amazon.com/Saladin-Empire-Holy-Peter-Gubser/dp/1611436702 , but I don't know if it goes into much detail regarding his Kurdish subjects.
>So saying the art was not Kurdish because the artisans were from Mosul is wrong.
I didn't say the art wasn't Kurdish, when are you going to stop putting words in my mouth? I wouldn't be surprised that Kurdish art existed and that there were some degree of influence in some areas, I was responding to your claim of everything about the Ayyubid era's art and culture was obviously influenced by Kurdish culture, which is not correct. This might be a bit shocking to you, but miswrites do happen. The craftsmen were fleeing from Central Asia because of approaching Mongols, not Mosul. They settled in Mosul. Here's your source, they weren't Kurds.
>First of all; Mosul has always had a very large Kurdish population
Beep, wrong again. If this was a game show, you'd already be the loser! Kurdish influx only started after the Islamic conquest of Assyria.
>How am I falsifying history by stating a fact: the Ayyubid Dynasty was a Kurdish Dynasty. Are you denying this?
You're not stating a fact, because it's not correct. It was a Muslim dynasty ruled by leaders who were of Kurdish origins. You know, the same dynasty that's known for fighting the third crusade? The same dynasty founded by a man who said:
>The Caliph is the lord of mankind and the repository of the True Faith; if he were to join us here I should give him all these lands--so what of Shahrazur?
Are you really sitting here and claiming that it was a Kurdish dynasty as opposed to a Muslim one? In all honesty I'm starting to think that you're a troll, that is a really weird thing to do. I'm not trying to be offensive, I'm just perplexed by your claims. Hell, even the Encyclopedia Britannica describes it as a Muslim dynasty. You need to understand that ethnicities did not matter during that time. Saladin did not call himself a Kurd, he called himself a Muslim. He fought for Islam, not Kurds. A majority of the people were Arabs, not Kurds.
 
 
I'd ask you for sources on some of the inane things you've said, like the art they created (depictions of the sun, shahmaran, peacock angle, etc.) but I'm afraid it would only be a waste of my time. I hope some day things get better for you and you're able to get rid of your nationalistic demons. I would also like to recommend the book The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria, partly authored by Yasser Tabbaa, a very knowledgeable man.
Now, if you excuse me I have to go and brew some tea.
Aymen Jawad Tamimi isn't a scholar of Islam.
Shaykh Yaqoubi IS a scholar of Islam, here he has comprehensively refuted Daesh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Refuting-ISIS-Shaykh-Muhammad-Al-Yaqoubi/dp/1908224193
Daesh ARE the khawarij. Daesh DO assume shia and other Muslims to be kuffar by default.
So stop peddling nonsense and lies. Daesh are a criminal kharijite group, there is Ijma on it.