Kurdish Studies

ISSN: 2051-4883 | e-ISSN: 2051-4891
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Book Reviews

Metin Atmaca
Social Sciences University of Ankara
Joost Jongerden
Wageningen University
Sabri Ateş
Southern Methodist University
Francis O’Connor
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Marouf Cabi
University of St Andrews
Keywords: Aramaic, bilingualism, borrowing, convergence, dialectology, language area, language contact, language diversity, language maintenance.

Abstract

Sebastian Maisel, ed., The Kurds: an Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2018, 376 pp., (978-1-4408-4256-6).

Murat Yeşiltaş and Tuncay Kardaş, eds., Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East: Geopolitics, Ideology, Strategy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 278 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-319-55287-3). 

Barbara Henning, Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2018, 756 pp., (ISBN: 9783863095512).

Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef, eds, The Kurdish Question Revisited. London: C Hurst & Co., 2017, 712 pp., (ISBN-10: 0190687185; ISBN-13: 978-0190687182).

Abbas Amanat, Iran: A Modern History, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2017, pp. 1000, (ISBN-10: 0300112548, ISBN-13: 978-0300112542).

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