The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire

Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobilityChallenges a long-standing spatial-geographical bias in Ottoman-Middle East history by bringing Kurdish and Armenian histories back into the Ottoman imperial framework Presents the first study to use the framework of hereditary nobility to examine Kurdish elite formation and its decline in the Ottoman EmpireDemonstrates the complex social, economic and political background to massacres and pogroms that targeted the Armenian population of Palu before the Armenian GenocideProvides a much-needed bottom-up historical perspective to Kurdish and Armenian historiographies Uses an array of sources that includes Ottoman, British and American archival documents and interviews conducted with the Palu beys' descendants This book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century.

Ancient history · Art · Empire · Geography · Nobility · Ottoman empire · Political science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law