Mardin: Aşiret-Cemaat-Devlet

Mardin: Tribe-Community-State Book Description History is a sum of processes, special moments and critical encounters. It contains happy and creative coincidences as well as unpredictability, anxiety and pain. Numerous medium and large-scale actors, institutions and structures are also part of this picture. The big brothers, the big brothers of history...! And of course, relations and patterns that are constantly changing, always re-blended, disrupted and re-established among dozens of them... With their suffocating effects on each other's life, which sometimes makes it feel like it will never end... If it is any consolation, let's not forget that the time-travelling historian is not free from this feeling either. But history also has moments of respite. The marvels scattered here and there, sprinkled and hidden are also integral parts of the same processes... It's a long, long story you'll read. Thirty-two parts of the story of a city, the region it affects and is influenced by, Mardin's surprisingly rich encounters, centuries-old patterns, and tireless actors... With its connected environment, side roads, parallel or sub-stories... Today's historians - that is, writers - have stood up and listened to them. , they re-told the story for you in their own way. The result is the book in your hands! Mardin Tribe, Community, State are neither a textbook nor an obligation..! If the flow of events tires and overwhelms you from time to time, know that this is not because of the malice of the authors! It's because the events happened that way and the narrators narrated it that way... Or let's say it's because the writers understood what was told to them that way and chose to tell it that way. Our suggestion when you get tired of reading: Try to feel it! (From the Promotional Bulletin)