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Title: Kürdlükten Çikmayub
Subtitle: Jānfūlād Ḥusayn's Complaint against Sultan Mehmed III
Author(s): DEHQAN, Mustafa , GENÇ, Vural
Journal: Journal Asiatique
Volume: 306    Issue: 2   Date: 2018   
Pages: 167-171
DOI: 10.2143/JA.306.2.3285609

Abstract :
This brief note explores issues of Kurdish identity by considering historical provisions of 16th-century Kurdish emirate of Kilīs, in northern Syria. These issues and such terms lie normally at the heart of contemporary politics, finding distinct articulations within recent scholarship. This brief note confines itself to the critical events of 16th-century history of Kilīs emirate; a seemingly disparate case that shows persistent affinity as a starting point in thinking through discrete early orientations toward Kurdish identity. When we refer to a Kurdish identity in this brief note we really mean a discursive Kurdish identity project and not a contemporary issue of Kurdish identity and questions of difference.

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