ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
Jews are a community that has existed in the geography of Kurdistan and the wider Middle East basin, and appeared as a separate nation/sect element in Ottoman records…
Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 626/1229) is known as the author of the geographical dictionary Mu'jam al-Buldan, one of the most comprehensive works of medieval Islamic geographical literature…
Ya'qubi (Abu al-Abbas Ahmad; d. 292/905) is one of the early historians, geographers, and travelers of the Islamic world. He is considered one of the first Muslim geographers…
Yemen, located in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula, is a region that gained importance for Kurdish historical sources, especially during the Ayyubid period. Its foundations were laid by Saladin…
The Yazidis are a people whose language is Kurdish, mentioned in sources both as a distinct religious community and by their tribes. Historically, from Mesopotamia to Iran, Russia, and also…
Yurtluk-Ocaklık is an administrative statute in the Ottoman State based on the continuity of the use of certain flags (bervech-i te'bîd) to local nobles in retu…
Yunini (Abu al-Fath Qutb al-Din Musa b. Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Ba'labakki al-Yunini) is a historian who was born in Damascus in 640/1242 and passed away in 726/1326 (Volume 1, p. 1…