A People Without a State: The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism

by Michael Eppel

Book Overview

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to life the historical, social, and political developments in Kurdistani society over the past millennium.

Michael Eppel begins with the myths...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477311076
• ISBN13: 9781477311073
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"