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Kurdish history

Kurds in world history (survey)

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

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Foundations
Study time
30 h
Wave
1
Status
Outline drafted

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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. 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
  2. The Cambridge History of the Kurds (2021). Cambridge University Press eBooks. DOI 10.1017/9781108623711
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Zyad M. NURİ (2022). POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE DE-FACTO KURDISTAN REGION-IRAQ. Kurdiname. DOI 10.55106/kurdiname.1081809

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Perspectives and disputes

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A map of the main positions, each with its own sources, is in preparation.

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01About this course

Who it is for
Anyone, including second-generation learners and host-country partners.
Format
Online at your own pace, with recorded talks and set readings.
Study time
About 30 hours, estimated
Before you start
Nothing. Everyone is welcome.
Discipline
Kurdish history

02What you will be able to do

  • Place the main periods of Kurdish history in order, from antiquity to today.
  • Explain how borders drawn after 1918 shaped Kurdish life.
  • Read a primary source critically.
  • Recognise where histories are contested and why.

03Modules

  1. 01

    Land and peoples

    Mountains, languages and early history.

  2. 02

    Emirates and empires

    Kurdish principalities between Ottomans and Safavids.

  3. 03

    The twentieth century

    Sèvres, Lausanne and the new states.

  4. 04

    Four states

    Türkiye, Iraq, Iran and Syria, each with its own history.

  5. 05

    Exile and diaspora

    The Soviet Union, Europe and beyond.

  6. 06

    Today

    Recent events, with every side’s sources.

04Assessment and completion

A commentary on one primary source and a final quiz.

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06Who teaches it

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07Pathways that include it

08Further reading

Suggested by open metadata, not yet reviewed.

  1. 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

  2. The Cambridge History of the Kurds

    2021 · Cambridge University Press eBooks

    BookOpenAlex

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

    Gerald Martin Maclean · 2019 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

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

    Cihat Yilmaz · 2026 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

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

    Zyad M. NURİ · 2022 · Kurdiname

    ArticleCrossref

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

09Record

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0.1, draft outline
Review
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Handling
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Provenance
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Licence
CC BY 4.0
Corrections
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Use
Do not use this course or its completion to imply endorsement or political standing.
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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurds in world history (survey). kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurds-in-world-history-survey/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurds in World History (Survey).” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurds-in-world-history-survey/.

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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurds in world history (survey)},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurds-in-world-history-survey/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/catalogue/kurds-in-world-history-survey/},
}

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