Wadie Jwaideh and David McDowall are two recent authors who cover similar ground.
Jwaideh, Wadie, The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development (Syracuse University Press 2006)..
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Othman Ali
Abstract
A native of Iraq,Wadie Jwaideh founded the Islamic and Near Eastern studies
program at Indiana University (Bloomington) in the early 1960s and oversawits
rise to national and international recognition until his retirement in the
mid-eighties.
Under his leadership, Indiana University became an internationally
renowned center for the study of Islam and the Middle East. His
counsel was often sought by many, including heads of state.
Moreover, his
encyclopedic knowledge of Arabic, Islamic history, and culture was
unmatched. In 2004, his students and friends founded the Jwaideh Memorial
Lecture. This book chronologically follows the developments of the Kurdish
question from the suppression of semi-autonomous Kurdish emirates (principalities)
in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, through
the First World War and the Kurdish rebellions of the 1930s and 1940s and
the establishment and fall of the short-lived Kurdish Republic of