ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
Al-Qalqashandī (Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Qalqashandī) is a Mamluk era scholar and scribe. His most famous work is Subh al-A'sha, on state organization and the art of scribing (...
Qazwini (full name Zakariya b. Muhammad b. Mahmud al-Qazwini) is known by this epithet because he was born in the city of Qazvin in Iran, and lived in the 7th Hijri / 13th Gregorian century...
The Chaldeans (Khaldi) are one of the communities adhering to the Christian faith, who existed in the geography of Mesopotamia and Kurdistan from antiquity to the Ottoman period...
Kirkuk is a city in the historical geography of Kurdistan, which was the center of a sanjak affiliated with the Mosul vilayet in the Ottoman administrative division. In the Ottoman period, frequently Shahriz...
The Khuzistan Chronicle is one of the early Syriac sources written after the mid-seventh century. It takes its name from a church in Khuzistan where its record was kept...
Kermanshah (Karmisin/Kirmanshahān) is located in western Iran, within the historical Jibal (Iraq-i Ajam) region, and mentioned in both ancient and Islamic era sources as a...
Korduk is a historical geographical name used in Late Antiquity Armenian sources for a mountainous region south of Lake Van. Its name, in pre-Islamic era sources...
Xenophon (431-354 BCE) is one of the leading historians and soldiers of the ancient Greek world. His work Anabasis, considered one of the earliest written testimonies of Kurdish history...
Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis) is a city located in Bilad al-Sham and frequently mentioned in Islamic era sources. In the corpus, Jerusalem is both the center of the Ayyubid-Crusader struggle and...
Qadi al-Fadil (d. 596 AH / 1200 CE) is a scribe, statesman, and scholar, one of the most influential bureaucrats and intellectuals of the Ayyubid ruler Saladin's era. ## S...
Kurdistan is the name given to a large and largely mountainous geography where Kurds have historically lived densely, and where Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey intersect today...
The Kurds are a people who historically inhabited the north-eastern provinces of Erzurum, Mamuretulaziz, Bitlis, Diyarbekir, Van and Mosul in and around Upper M…
Kurdish is the language spoken by Kurds and is a spoken language in the sources as well as an application framework explaining the origin of place, family and i…