Kurds - Sociological and Historical Review

The Ararat mountain knot, located at the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates, has for centuries hosted a cluster of tribes whose social and linguistic homogeneity has left its mark many times in history: These are the Kurds. Although a number of experts dealing with Kurdish issues have attempted a methodical study of these issues for half a century, what Kurdistan is is not yet well known, and this review by an authoritative Kurdish issues expert is the first comprehensive work to cover various aspects of the Kurdish problem.B. Thanks to the valuable friendships he established during his time in Urmia, Nikitin compiled an on-site document index on the Kurds, which was also used by various scientific journals in our country. Following the increasingly rich bibliography on the subject in English and Russian, the author deals with all aspects of the Kurdish problem in twelve chapters of the book: origins of the language, lifestyles, spiritual typology, living environment, tribal structure, history of clans, formation of the idea of nation. These were the main axes of approach of his research, which was full of understanding and sympathy. Bazil Nikitin