International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles from January 1999

International Journal of Kurdish Studies archives from January 1999

Editor's note.(Editorial)
January 1, 1999... Thanks to a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, last Spring the Kurdish Library mounted a text exhibit on "The Legacy of Saladin" with material gleaned from our own collections. Most of the books were written in this century, an indication...

The Crusades and the era of Saladin.
January 1, 1999... Viewed in their rightful setting, the Crusades constitute the medieval chapter in the long story of interaction between East and West, of which the Trojan and Persian wars of antiquity form the prelude, and the imperialistic expansion of modern...

Saladin's character (Baha' ad-Din, 7-41).(Biography)
January 1, 1999... The Muslim sources for Saladin and his deeds are, first, his officials and household retainers 'Imad ad-Din and Baha' ad-Din: the former with his history of the conquest of Jerusalem (which continues in fact up to the death of Saladin.). The...

Saladin: life and legend.(Biography)
January 1, 1999... At the start of his Lives Plutarch writes: 'As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts...

The legacy of Saladin.(poetic license)
January 1, 1999... The Pope he is a happy man, His palace is the Vatican, And there he sits and drains his can: The Pope he is a happy man. I often say when I'm at home, I'd like to be the Pope of Rome. And then there's Sultan Saladin, That Turkish...

The origins of the Ayyubid confederation.
January 1, 1999... The emergence of the principalities One of the more tangled aspects of Saladin's history concerns his dealings with his own family. On the one hand their ties to him were more permanent and compelling than those between him and any amir....

Eagles in the sun: the Ayyubids after Saladin.
January 1, 1999... BLOOD AGAINST BLOOD: THE SONS OF SALADIN The Third Crusade has rightly been remembered, both in history and folklore, as a duel between Saladin and the Plantagenet king of England, Richard I, Coeur de Lion (the Lionhearted). It ended with...

Chronology 1138-1260.(Chronology)
January 1, 1999... 1138 Saladin is born in Tikrit (now in Iraq) to Ayyub, the son of Shadhi, a Kurd from Adjdanakan, near Dwin in Armenia. Ayyub and his brother Shirkuh served as generals for Zangi, the Turkish atabeg of Mosul and a key leader in the Muslim...

The Book of Saladin.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Tariq Ali, The Book of Saladin. New York & London: Verso, 1998. 367 pp. In the Book of Saladin, second in a planned quartet of books about the historical conflict between Christianity and Islam, Tariq Ali brings to life the legendary...

Language and Human Behavior.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Derek Bickerton, Language and Human Behavior. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 161 pp. Appendix 162-166. Bibliography 167-176. Index 177-180. This offering by Derek Bickerton is as lucid as it is disturbing. A professor of...

The Quagmire.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Emil Murad, The Quagmire. Tel Aviv-London: Freund Publishing House Ltd., 1998. 260 pp. If ever a title informed a book's content, this is it. Quagmire is what confronts the reader at the outset. It begins with a Title page followed by an...

The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations: From World War 1 to 1998.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Robert Olson, The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations: From World War 1 to 1998. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1998. 87 pp. Bibliography. A professor of history at the University of Kentucky, Olson sets out in this essay "to...

The Citadel of Cairo. A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Nasser O. Rabbat, The Citadel of Cairo. A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xx +295 pp. Plates, Figures, Glossary 297-304, Index 311-325, Bibliography 311-325. The Citadel was conceived at a time...