Khanna Omarkhali

Biographic Data

ID9024274
NAMEKhanna Omarkhali
GIVEN NAMESKhanna
FAMILY NAMEOmarkhali
SIGNATUREOMARKHALI K
AFFILIATIONSFreie Universität Berlin
ORCID0000-0003-3897-7901
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • An Amulet Scroll from Erzurum from August D. Żaba’s Kurdish Collection in the Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia, Kurd. 51

    Khanna OmarkhaliARTICLEJournal of Islamic Manuscripts2022

    This article presents an edition, translation, and study of the amulet scroll Kurd. 51 from the Kurdish collection of August D. Żaba that was presented by him to the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia ( NLR ) in St Petersburg in 1868 along with 52 manuscripts and lithographs. The amulet contains passages in Arabic and Persian and was found, according to Żaba, among the Kurds in Erzurum

  • Abdullah Incekan. Kurdisch für Fortgeschrittene. Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch des Kurmancî mit Lösungen und Audiomaterial

    Open AccessKhanna OmarkhaliARTICLEAbstracta Iranica2022

    Kurmanji -also called Northern Kurdish and spoken by the majority of Kurds -is the northern dialect of the kurdish language, which belongs to the north-western iranian group within the indo-european language family. The political situation of the kurds and the absence of official institutions supporting the development of the language, as well as assimilation attempts in some countries, has influenced the development of kurmanji, and it still fac…

  • Introduction to the special issue

    Philip G Kreyenbroek, Philip Kreyenbroek et al.ARTICLEKurdish Studies2016

    The articles in this volume deal with recent developments concerning the Yezidis. They focus on the consequences of IS’s attempted genocide of Yezidis in the Sinjar region, and on aspects of the current public and academic discourse on Yezidis and their religion.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIDestpêk bo hejmara taybet: Êzdiyatî û Lêkolînên li ser êzdiyan di serê sedsala 21an deDanasîna hejmara taybet: Êzdiyatî û xebatên li ser êzdiyan di destpêka sedsala 21…

  • Transformations in the Yezidi tradition after the Isis attacks. An interview with Ilhan Kizilhan

    Khanna OmarkhaliARTICLEKurdish Studies2016

    Professor Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan is a Yezidi transcultural psychologist. He is the Head of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction at the State University Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In that capacity he has made frequent visits to the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, as part of a project aiming to provide psychological aid to Yezidi women who escaped after being captured and enslaved by ISIS. Under ISIS, Yezidis suffered mass killings, forced conv…

  • Yezidi Spirits? On the question of Yezidi beliefs

    Philip G Kreyenbroek, Philip Kreyenbroek et al.ARTICLEKurdish Studies2016

    While the Yezidi tradition undoubtedly has certain core characteristics, a more or less “logically” coherent system of beliefs is rarely described as one of these. The book under review deals with beliefs about a wide range of Yezidi “Holy Beings” and seeks to describe the “essentials” of Yezidism in this respect. This calls into question both the nature of Yezidi beliefs, and the methodological approach used here to analyse these. For the record…

  • Obituary

    Khanna OmarkhaliARTICLEKurdish Studies2014

    This is an obituary for Professor Ol’ga Ivanovna Zhigalina, the well-known Russian Kurdologist and Iranist and director of the Kurdish Cabinet at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science (Institút vostokovédenija Rossíjskoj akadémii naúk) in Moscow, who sadly passed away at her place of work on 23rd October, 2013. Over four decades Professor Zhigalina made an immense contribution to the field of Kurdology and the modern…