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Kurdish history

Kurdish history spans the Zagros and Taurus from antiquity to the present, across four states and the diaspora.

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Faculty of Kurdish Studies
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subject

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Sources

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  1. Cihat Yilmaz (2026). History and National Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Kurdish Nationalist Historical Narratives. International Journal of Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.21600/ijoks.1870377
  2. Piotr Sosnowski (2022). Path Dependence from Proxy Agent to De Facto State: A History of ‘Strategic Exploitation’ of the Kurds as a Context of the Iraqi Kurdistan Security Policy. International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV). DOI 10.11576/ijcv-5688
  3. Zyad M. NURİ (2022). POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE DE-FACTO KURDISTAN REGION-IRAQ. Kurdiname. DOI 10.55106/kurdiname.1081809
  4. The Cambridge History of the Kurds (2021). Cambridge University Press eBooks. DOI 10.1017/9781108623711
  5. Gerald Martin Maclean (2019). British Travellers, the Kurds, and Kurdistan: a brief literary history, c. 1520-1673. Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.33182/ks.v7i2.461

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01Fields

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  • Kurds in world history
  • Historiography
  • Sources and archives
  • The Sharafnama

02Classification

Where the discipline sits in the international lists of fields.

SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.26.1OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0222UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

Outlined 1

  • Kurdish history · Foundations

    Kurds in world history (survey)

    Kurdish history from antiquity to today, across the four states and the diaspora.

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A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

04Communities of practice

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05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Heritage

    History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

  • Research

    Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Early and medieval Kurdistan

    This field studies the Zagros and Taurus from early history through the medieval Kurdish dynasties and emirates.

    3 courses4 fields

  • Open

    Modern Kurdish history

    Modern Kurdish history follows Kurds from the end of the Ottoman Empire into the states that followed, with every side and its sources.

    8 courses6 fields

  • Open

    Memory and genocide studies

    Memory and genocide studies examine mass atrocities against Kurdish and neighbouring communities, with survivors’ communities and trauma-informed care.

    7 courses6 fields

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurdish history. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-history/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish History.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-history/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish history},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-history/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-history/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. History and National Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Kurdish Nationalist Historical Narratives

    Cihat Yilmaz · 2026 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

  2. Path Dependence from Proxy Agent to De Facto State: A History of ‘Strategic Exploitation’ of the Kurds as a Context of the Iraqi Kurdistan Security Policy

    Piotr Sosnowski · 2022 · International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)

    ArticleDataCiteDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-ND-2.0

  3. POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE DE-FACTO KURDISTAN REGION-IRAQ

    Zyad M. NURİ · 2022 · Kurdiname

    ArticleCrossref

  4. The Cambridge History of the Kurds

    2021 · Cambridge University Press eBooks

    BookOpenAlex

  5. British Travellers, the Kurds, and Kurdistan: a brief literary history, c. 1520-1673

    Gerald Martin Maclean · 2019 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  6. The Effect of Sex Differences and Family History as a Genetic Factors related to Autism Spectrum Disorder among Group of children in Erbil city, Kurdistan Region- Iraq.

    Srwa S. Saleem, Nihad A. Ameen · 2023 · Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. A Struggle within a Struggle: The History of the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement.

    Isabel Martina Käser · 2021 · University of Bern

    ChapterDataCiterestricted

  8. The Kurdish spring, history in the making: where are the women?

    Salome Hirvaskoski · 2014 · My University

    OtherDataCite

  9. On the Linguistic History of Kurdish

    Thomas Jügel · 2024 · Kurdish Studies Archive

    ChapterCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  10. Kurdish Women’s Experience in Iraq: History, Politics and Literature

    Lolav M. Hassan Alhamid · 2024 · Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  11. Sunni, Shia, and Kurd: A Brief History of Islamism in Kurdistan

    Ali Ezzatyar · 2016 · The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan

    ChapterCrossref

  12. Teaching the History of Kurdistan through Visual Art

    2021 · VESAL2021 Proceedings Book

    ArticleCrossref

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