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Syria's kurds : history, politics and society /

"This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the articulation between tribal, local, regional,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tejel, Jordi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Colección:Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • 1. The Kurds during the French Mandate. Kurdish populations under the French Mandate
  • The mandate system and the birth of the Syrian state
  • The Mandate and colonial expertise
  • The Kurdish cultural movement in Syria and Lebanon
  • Fragmentation of the Kurdish community: politics in Jazira
  • 2. Syria in transition, 1946-63. Minorities under suspicion
  • Searching for new political horizons
  • The triumph of Arab nationalism and the United Arab Republic
  • 3. The Baʻathist system and the Kurds. Baʻathism: an exception in Arab nationalism?
  • The years of ideological purity (1963-70)
  • The years of exploitation (1970-2000)
  • 4. The Kurdish issue and its transnational dimension
  • The emergence of Hafiz al-Asʻad's game
  • The fall of Saddam Husayn and the collapse of Syrian strategy
  • 5. The Kurdish response and its margins: dissimulation of a hidden conflict. The Kurdish parties at the margins of the legal system
  • Kurdish identity at the margins of official Islam
  • The defense of Kurdish culture
  • 6. The Qamishli revolt, 2004: the marker of a new era for the Kurds in Syria. The events preceding the Kurdish upheaval
  • The Qamishli revolt
  • Toward a radicalization of ethnic divisions?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix.