The Kurds: A Concise History And Fact Book - Tapa dura

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Since before the dawn of history, the mountainous lands of the northern Middle East have been home to the Kurds. Labelled "mountain Turks" in Turkey and "Umayyad Arabs" in Syria and Iraq, and coupled with the outright denial of their existence in Iran and Soviet Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, there is much confusion over the identity of the Kurds themselves. Despite their antiquity and the growing geopolitical implications of Kurdish national aspirations, very little reference work on the Kurds has been done. This book aims to serve as a ready reference work. The author, himself a Kurd, draws upon both ancient and modern source materials to cover the history, ethnography, geography, culture and politics of the Kurds.