Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period

Stefan Winter is professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and visiting professor at Koç University. Zainab HajHasan is a PhD candidate in history at Koç University and a language instructor at ANAMED (Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) in Istanbul.

List of Maps and Illustrations
Abbreviations of Archival Collections

Introduction

Part One: Kurdish Origins and Territorialities in Diachronic Perspective

1. Nusaybin under the Ottomans
Tom Sinclair

2. The Qizilbash Reconsidered: The Role of the Kurdish Arabgirlu Tribe in the Early Safavid State
Mustafa Dehqan and Vural Genç

3. The ʿAfrin District under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1921
Stefan Winter

Part Two: Kurds in Western and Urban Syria

4. Locating the Kurds in Ottoman Jordan and Palestine in the Sixteenth Century
Zainab HajHasan

5. The Lebanese Junblats and the Canbolads: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Abdul Rahim Abu-Husayn

6. Warlords and Landlords: The Kurdish Presence in Central Syria in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Dick Douwes

Part Three: Kurdish Tribalism and Tribal Control in the Jazira

7. Waqf versus Miri Nomads: Taxation, Endowment, and Settlement Practices in Northern Syria in the Eighteenth Century
Keiko Iwamoto

8. Bekir Bey and the Making of a Reşwan Kurd Nobility at Rumkale
Muhsin Soyudoğan

9. The Berazi Tribe of Suruj and Their Rebellion in the Tanzimat Period
Muhsin Seyda

10. The Reşwan in Central Anatolia: Tribal Settlement and Sheep Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Yonca Köksal

11. Warfare and Alliances in Raʾs al-ʿAyn: Hamidiye Regiments, Bedouin Tribes, and Ottoman Governors, 1895–1905
Erdal Çiftçi

Part Four: Syrian Kurdish Elites of the Late Ottoman Period

12. Kurdish Naqshbandi-Khalidi Sheikhs of Damascus in the Nineteenth Century
Metin Atmaca

13. Alliances and Competition in Kurdish Networks in Late Ottoman Syria: The Example of the Bedirhani and Baban Families
Barbara Henning

14. Between Ottomanism and Kurdism: Mehmed Salih Bedirhan and ʿAbd al-Rahman Yusuf in Damascus
Martin Strohmeier

Afterword
Contributors
Index