ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
The Shaddadids (also referred to as Beni Shaddad, Al-i Shaddad, Shaddadiyan, and Shatatik in sources) were a dynasty that ruled Arrân and Ermenist... from the mid-10th century to the end of the 12th century.
Shahrizor (Shahrezor) is mentioned in historical sources as a region inhabited by Kurds and an administrative center, and during the Ottoman period, it was a sanjak/province bearing the same name...
Şemdinan was a kaza of the Hakkâri Sanjak, part of the Van Vilayet during the Ottoman period; its administrative center was Nehri (Volume 4, p. 133; Volume 4, p. 127). The kaza, in the 20th century...
Shamseddin Sami was an author of journalism, dictionary, linguistics, theatre and novel writing during the Ottoman Empire, and the author of the book Kamusu'l-A…
Sharaf Khan (Sharaf Khan Bitlisi) is a 16th-century Kurdish bey and historian, the ruler of Bitlis and the author of Sherefname, one of the fundamental sources of Kurdish history.
Sherefnâme is a major source work written by Sheref Khan (Bidlisî), which covers the history of the Kurdish tribes and the dynasties founded by the Kurds. The s…
Şerif Pasha is one of the controversial figures in Kurdish political history at the beginning of the 20th century. With his diplomatic initiatives in Paris after World War I and...
Sheikh Ubeydullah was a Kurdish religious and political leader who was influential in the Ottoman-Iranian border region in the second half of the 19th century, …
Shayzari (Munqidh al-Shayzari, Jalal al-Din), born in Shayzar near Hama in 488/1095, lived during the reign of the Ayyubid ruler Saladin, and was involved in state administration...
Shikak (Shikaki, Shekak, Shikikak) is one of the major Kurdish tribes living in the Ottoman-Iranian border region, in the geography between the village of Van-H…
Shirvan is a place name that appears as two distinct geographical entities in the sources of Kurdish history: one is a historical region mentioned in the Arrân/Azerbaijan region in the Caucasus...
Şırnak is a Kurdish settlement in the Botan region, where the tribal structure is strong. In the Ottoman administrative division, it was a settlement attached to the Mardin sanjak, like Nusaybin, C...