International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles

Recent articles from International Journal of Kurdish Studies

Discovering the obvious.(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Persian Poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) On an ordinary day in October 1976, I was busy writing my doctoral...

Ten years on the Euphrates: primitive missionary policy illustrated.(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... 1868 BEFORE SPEAKING OF THE FIELD and work by which special attention will be paid, let us take a hasty view of the country at large and its inhabitants. In the southern part of the territory of the Mission to Eastern Turkey are the eastern portion of Mesopotamia and Ancient Assyria, the...

The Tennessean in Persia and Kurdistan: being scenes and incidents in the life of Samuel Audley Rhea.(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... 1869 IN A SINGLE BATTLE of the great Russian and Turkish war more souls entered eternity than all the missionaries who have died for five hundred years. Honor to the brave! Let them win earthly applause. Those who came out of sieges, battles, pestilence, and, from Kars and Crimea,...

From wild life among the Koords.(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... 1870 BEFORE ADVANCING ANY FURTHER into the details relating to the description of this country, and to the manners and customs of the inhabitants, it is necessary to give her some general notions on the geographical position and history of Koordistan and Armenia. In the old world the...

Turkey and Armenia: with a full and accurate account of the recent massacres by eye witnesses.(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... 1896 THE RECENT REPORTS concerning the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey and other places have been looked upon by many as incredible; not, however, to those acquainted with the character of the Kurds, who were the chief perpetrators. My intimate acquaintance with this people, and my...