Arab Ethnonyms (‘Ajam, ‘Arab, Badū and Turk)
The Kurdish Case as a Paradigm for Thinking about Differences in the Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boris James (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 683-712 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2014.934149 |
| OpenAlex | W1994232124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In general terms, the history of the Kurds in the medieval period—or at least those described as being Kurdish in our sources—has attracted relatively little attention within western academia. Moreover, those scholars who have thought to comment on the subject have in general relied on the work of the eminent Russian orientalist Vladimir Minorsky. Hence there has been very little re-examination of the Arabic sources which Minorsky consulted. This article constitutes a first attempt to re-examine some of the “historical orthodoxy” regarding the meaning and nature of the term Kurd in the Middle Ages. More precisely, it aims at questionning the work of those scholars who argue that, due to its ambiguous usage, the term Kurd in the medieval period did not denote an ethnic people. This paper argues that in fact the very ambiguity surrounding the term is indicative of its ethnonymic value and through an examination of the meaning of the term Kurd in this era we can gain a greater understanding of conceptions of ethnic difference in Arabo-Muslim sources
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Ancient history · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Middle Ages · Orientalism · Orthodoxy · Period (music · Sociology · Subject (documents · Term (time · Anthropology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Families in Therapy and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |