Mashuq Kurt
Biographic Data
| ID | 905683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mashuq Kurt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mashuq |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurt |
| SIGNATURE | KURT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9389-8312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Islam, critique, and the canon: An introduction
Islamic ideas have, for a long time, been de-historicized, decontextualized and approached as if developed in isolation from broader intellectual and political debates or as if only developed in a reactive relationship with other traditions of thought, including colonialism—a problem that has been pointed out repeatedly. Indeed, a growing scholarship is resisting the politically problematic accounts that centralize canonical Islam in their analys…
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
Decolonizing Minds and Education: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Kurdistan
This article examines the intricacies involved in the process of decolonizing education. It draws on the author's first-hand teaching experiences and observations as an activist scholar and a critical pedagogue at Bingöl University in Turkey from 2013 to 2016, during a period marked by intense political tension between security forces and Kurdish insurgencies. It elucidates a transformative pedagogical endeavor aimed at decolonizing education, wi…
Allah, Bread, Freedom: Turkey’s Muslim others and transnational mosques in Europe
Scholarship on political Islam has often addressed settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. On the other hand, this article focuses on a less explored aspect of Islamist governmentalities in a case when Islamism becomes a part of the governing canon and rules over its Muslim others. I investigate situations where Islamist politics incorporates neo-imperial, nationalist, and coloni…
From Islamists to Religious Patriots
This article explores the complex and intersectional identities and positionalities of Kurdish Islamist women activists in Turkey in the context of heightened violence and tensions linked to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict. While both female Islamist activists and Kurdish activists in Turkey and the wider region have been subject to in-depth research over the past decade, Kurdish Islamist women have largely been overlooked in the literature.…
Radical Habitus: Trajectories of Youth Radicalization in Turkey
This article investigates trajectories and sociopolitical drivers of youth radicalization in Turkey in the context of the Syrian war and the Kurdish national struggle. It proposes a conceptual framework (radical habitus) to better understand contemporary radicalization phenomena. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research, conducted between 2015 and 2018 in Turkish-Syrian border cities, in Istanbul, and in a refugee camp in Greece, I offer an …
Spreading whose word: Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques
In this article, I explore the role of religious discourses and practices in the diasporic Kurdish-Turkish conflict and investigate the ways in which presentations of the political conflict has been disseminated and reproduced via Turkish mosques located in Europe and the United States. Through extended ethnographic research, I examine the imagination of Turkish political theology and the exclusion of the Kurds from the imagined transnational Mus…
In Memory of Kadri Yıldırım (Qedrî Yildirim) (1959 – 2021)
This obituary outlines the life and work of Kadri Yıldırım, a prominent Kurdish scholar and the first professor of Kurdish studies in Turkey. It focuses on his early life and medrese education and highlights his contribution to the field of Kurdish studies and his scholarly and political efforts for the Kurdish language to become a language of education in Turkey. Abstract in Kurmanji Bi bîranîna Qedrî Yildirim (1959-2021) Ev bîrname xulaseyeke j…
No Justice for Kurds: Turkish Supremacy and Kurdophobia
The Kurds, as the world’s largest stateless nation, are subjected to extreme violence, discrimination, hostility, and racism in contemporary Turkey. I formulate this around the concept of Turkish supremacy and explain how this supremacy is historically rooted, institutionally reinforced, and socially reproduced in the racist habitus of Turkey. Kurdophobia is integral to Turkish supremacy, which needs to invoke racism against Kurds to sustain its …
A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey
This article examines the incomplete transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah from an illegal underground organization to a social and political movement influent in the Kurdish Turkey. The article contextualizes Hizbullah’s transformation within the broader social and political developments after the 2000s. After a critical evaluation of the reconfiguration of the Kurdish political sphere in Turkey, the article critically addresses the Hizbullah’…
‘My Muslim Kurdish brother’: Colonial rule and Islamist governmentality in the Kurdish region of Turkey
This article critically examines the role of Islamist state discourse and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Academic works on Islamism often address settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. However, this article discusses how Islamist ideology has become an instrument of governmentality to maintain and legitimize colonial rule in the Kurdish region of Turkey under the Adal…
MS 4. Yüzyılda Isauria Eyaleti’nin Siyasal ve İdari Yapısı
Antik çağda kuzeyden Lykaonia ve Toros dağları doğudan Kilikia, batıdan ise Pamphylia ile çevrilmiş sahalar Isauria, halkı da Isaurialılar olarak adlandırılmıştır. Arazi yapısı açısından oldukça engebeli bir görünüm sergileyen bölgenin çok az bir bölümü tarımsal faaliyetler için uygun şartlara sahiptir. Bölge, bütün eskiçağ boyunca ama özellikle de Roma döneminde çok sayıda haydutluk faaliyetine sahne olmuş ve isyanlar görülmüştür. Isauria'nın ta…
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State
Pluto's State Crime series is dedicated to understanding state crime, showcasing the best of new state crime scholarship.This is work which challenges official and legal definitions of crime, but on any reasonable definition (whether based on national and international law or a concept such as social harm) crimes condoned, committed or instigated by states dwarf most other forms of crime.Genocide, war crimes, torture, and the enormous scale of co…
M.Ö. I. Bin Yıl Asur-Anadolu İlişkilerinde Kilikya Bölgesi
Kilikya; Akdeniz'e uzanan dağları, ovaları, vadileri, nehirleri, geçitleri ve yüksek platoları ile coğrafî bir çeşitliliğe sahiptir. Ayrıca, bölgenin Anadolu ve Suriye arasında bir köprü oluşturan konumu yanında, doğal zenginlik kaynakları da onun sosyal, ekonomik, kültürel, askerî ve siyasal gelişimine yön vermiştir. En eski çağlardan itibaren, Anadolu-Mezopotamya ilişkilerinde belirleyici bir rol oynadığı anlaşılan Kilikya, Asurluların Anadolu …
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State
Pluto's State Crime series is dedicated to understanding state crime, showcasing the best of new state crime scholarship.This is work which challenges official and legal definitions of crime, but on any reasonable definition (whether based on national and international law or a concept such as social harm) crimes condoned, committed or instigated by states dwarf most other forms of crime.Genocide, war crimes, torture, and the enormous scale of co…
No Justice for Kurds: Turkish Supremacy and Kurdophobia
The Kurds, as the world’s largest stateless nation, are subjected to extreme violence, discrimination, hostility, and racism in contemporary Turkey. I formulate this around the concept of Turkish supremacy and explain how this supremacy is historically rooted, institutionally reinforced, and socially reproduced in the racist habitus of Turkey. Kurdophobia is integral to Turkish supremacy, which needs to invoke racism against Kurds to sustain its …
Islam, critique, and the canon: An introduction
Islamic ideas have, for a long time, been de-historicized, decontextualized and approached as if developed in isolation from broader intellectual and political debates or as if only developed in a reactive relationship with other traditions of thought, including colonialism—a problem that has been pointed out repeatedly. Indeed, a growing scholarship is resisting the politically problematic accounts that centralize canonical Islam in their analys…
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
Radical Habitus: Trajectories of Youth Radicalization in Turkey
This article investigates trajectories and sociopolitical drivers of youth radicalization in Turkey in the context of the Syrian war and the Kurdish national struggle. It proposes a conceptual framework (radical habitus) to better understand contemporary radicalization phenomena. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research, conducted between 2015 and 2018 in Turkish-Syrian border cities, in Istanbul, and in a refugee camp in Greece, I offer an …
M.Ö. I. Bin Yıl Asur-Anadolu İlişkilerinde Kilikya Bölgesi
Kilikya; Akdeniz'e uzanan dağları, ovaları, vadileri, nehirleri, geçitleri ve yüksek platoları ile coğrafî bir çeşitliliğe sahiptir. Ayrıca, bölgenin Anadolu ve Suriye arasında bir köprü oluşturan konumu yanında, doğal zenginlik kaynakları da onun sosyal, ekonomik, kültürel, askerî ve siyasal gelişimine yön vermiştir. En eski çağlardan itibaren, Anadolu-Mezopotamya ilişkilerinde belirleyici bir rol oynadığı anlaşılan Kilikya, Asurluların Anadolu …
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State
Pluto's State Crime series is dedicated to understanding state crime, showcasing the best of new state crime scholarship.This is work which challenges official and legal definitions of crime, but on any reasonable definition (whether based on national and international law or a concept such as social harm) crimes condoned, committed or instigated by states dwarf most other forms of crime.Genocide, war crimes, torture, and the enormous scale of co…
MS 4. Yüzyılda Isauria Eyaleti’nin Siyasal ve İdari Yapısı
Antik çağda kuzeyden Lykaonia ve Toros dağları doğudan Kilikia, batıdan ise Pamphylia ile çevrilmiş sahalar Isauria, halkı da Isaurialılar olarak adlandırılmıştır. Arazi yapısı açısından oldukça engebeli bir görünüm sergileyen bölgenin çok az bir bölümü tarımsal faaliyetler için uygun şartlara sahiptir. Bölge, bütün eskiçağ boyunca ama özellikle de Roma döneminde çok sayıda haydutluk faaliyetine sahne olmuş ve isyanlar görülmüştür. Isauria'nın ta…
‘My Muslim Kurdish brother’: Colonial rule and Islamist governmentality in the Kurdish region of Turkey
This article critically examines the role of Islamist state discourse and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Academic works on Islamism often address settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. However, this article discusses how Islamist ideology has become an instrument of governmentality to maintain and legitimize colonial rule in the Kurdish region of Turkey under the Adal…
A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey
This article examines the incomplete transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah from an illegal underground organization to a social and political movement influent in the Kurdish Turkey. The article contextualizes Hizbullah’s transformation within the broader social and political developments after the 2000s. After a critical evaluation of the reconfiguration of the Kurdish political sphere in Turkey, the article critically addresses the Hizbullah’…
In Memory of Kadri Yıldırım (Qedrî Yildirim) (1959 – 2021)
This obituary outlines the life and work of Kadri Yıldırım, a prominent Kurdish scholar and the first professor of Kurdish studies in Turkey. It focuses on his early life and medrese education and highlights his contribution to the field of Kurdish studies and his scholarly and political efforts for the Kurdish language to become a language of education in Turkey. Abstract in Kurmanji Bi bîranîna Qedrî Yildirim (1959-2021) Ev bîrname xulaseyeke j…
No Justice for Kurds: Turkish Supremacy and Kurdophobia
The Kurds, as the world’s largest stateless nation, are subjected to extreme violence, discrimination, hostility, and racism in contemporary Turkey. I formulate this around the concept of Turkish supremacy and explain how this supremacy is historically rooted, institutionally reinforced, and socially reproduced in the racist habitus of Turkey. Kurdophobia is integral to Turkish supremacy, which needs to invoke racism against Kurds to sustain its …
Spreading whose word: Militarism and nationalism in the transnational Turkish mosques
In this article, I explore the role of religious discourses and practices in the diasporic Kurdish-Turkish conflict and investigate the ways in which presentations of the political conflict has been disseminated and reproduced via Turkish mosques located in Europe and the United States. Through extended ethnographic research, I examine the imagination of Turkish political theology and the exclusion of the Kurds from the imagined transnational Mus…
Allah, Bread, Freedom: Turkey’s Muslim others and transnational mosques in Europe
Scholarship on political Islam has often addressed settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. On the other hand, this article focuses on a less explored aspect of Islamist governmentalities in a case when Islamism becomes a part of the governing canon and rules over its Muslim others. I investigate situations where Islamist politics incorporates neo-imperial, nationalist, and coloni…
From Islamists to Religious Patriots
This article explores the complex and intersectional identities and positionalities of Kurdish Islamist women activists in Turkey in the context of heightened violence and tensions linked to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict. While both female Islamist activists and Kurdish activists in Turkey and the wider region have been subject to in-depth research over the past decade, Kurdish Islamist women have largely been overlooked in the literature.…
Radical Habitus: Trajectories of Youth Radicalization in Turkey
This article investigates trajectories and sociopolitical drivers of youth radicalization in Turkey in the context of the Syrian war and the Kurdish national struggle. It proposes a conceptual framework (radical habitus) to better understand contemporary radicalization phenomena. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research, conducted between 2015 and 2018 in Turkish-Syrian border cities, in Istanbul, and in a refugee camp in Greece, I offer an …
Islam, critique, and the canon: An introduction
Islamic ideas have, for a long time, been de-historicized, decontextualized and approached as if developed in isolation from broader intellectual and political debates or as if only developed in a reactive relationship with other traditions of thought, including colonialism—a problem that has been pointed out repeatedly. Indeed, a growing scholarship is resisting the politically problematic accounts that centralize canonical Islam in their analys…
The Decolonial Turn in Kurdish Studies: An Introduction
This special-issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors' discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which offers a framework for understanding the enduring oppression faced by Kurds within the context of ongoing colonial domination in the Middle East. The introduction delves into themes of hi…
Decolonizing Minds and Education: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Kurdistan
This article examines the intricacies involved in the process of decolonizing education. It draws on the author's first-hand teaching experiences and observations as an activist scholar and a critical pedagogue at Bingöl University in Turkey from 2013 to 2016, during a period marked by intense political tension between security forces and Kurdish insurgencies. It elucidates a transformative pedagogical endeavor aimed at decolonizing education, wi…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Turkish (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works)