Kurdistan Missionary
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 426
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Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan
Author: Mordechai Zaken
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9004161902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume deals with the experience and the position of non-tribal Jewish subjects and their relationships with their tribal chieftains (aghas) in urban centers and villages in Kurdistan. It is based on new oral sources, diligently collected and carefully analyzed.
Kurds
Author: Mehrdad Izady
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1135844976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1993. Since before the dawn of recorded history the mountainous lands of the northern Middle East have been home to a distinct people whose cultural tradition is one of the most authentic and original in the world. Some vestiges of Kurdish life and culture can actually be traced back to burial rituals practiced over 50,000 years ago by people inhabiting the Shanidar Caves near Arbil in central Kurdistan. In this book, the author has tried to identify and delineate the heritage of the Kurds, now thoroughly submerged in the accepted and standard models for subdividing Middle Eastern civilization, none of which is designed to accommodate the stateless Kurds.
Ethnic Realities and the Church (Second Edition)
Author: Robert Blincoe
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
Published: 1979-06-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 087808049X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLessons Learned the Hard Way. The missionary enterprise is difficult, wherever it’s undertaken. But some places and peoples make it especially difficult, showing painfully-little visible fruit over decades or even centuries. Kurdistan is one of those places. But that doesn’t mean God hasn’t been at work, nor does it mean there aren’t valuable lessons to be learned, even from “failures.” From his on-the-ground experience in Kurdistan and his study of past missionary work there, Bob Blincoe presents this thorough history of missions to the Kurdish people. More than mere history, Ethnic Realities and the Church is also a mission-strategy handbook. Here are helpful insights and implications not only for those who would still reach the Kurds for Christ, but for missionaries to any people group, especially where tilling the soil is particularly hard.
Fever and Thirst
Author: Gordon Taylor
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2007-05-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0897335724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first Americans to work with the people of the Middle East were neither spies nor soldiers. They were, in fact, teachers, printers, and missionaries; and one was a country doctor from Utica, NY. In June of 1835 Asahel Grant, M.D. and his bride, Judith, sailed from Boston to heal the sick and save the world. Fever and Thirst tells the story of Asahel Grant: explorer, physician, author and the first American to become enmeshed in the struggles of northern Iraq.
The Kurdish National Movement
Author: Wadie Jwaideh
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780815630937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seminal work in the field of Kurdish studies, Wadie Jwaideh’s pioneering research, published for the first time, presents a detailed analysis of the early phases of Kurdish nationalism and offers a framework within which to understand the movement’s later development. Following Wadie Jwaideh’s dissertation defense, his doctoral chairman took aside Jwaideh’s wife, Alice, and asked her to submit the work for publication without Wadie’s permission, believing that Wadie’s penchant for perfection would postpone its publication indefinitely. The thesis was never published during Jwaideh’s lifetime, but its fame spread by word of mouth, and many scholars have recognized its importance not only as a study of the earlier periods of Kurdish nationalism but also as a model for understanding its subsequent history. The work now stands as a classic, referenced by some of the most renowned scholars in the field. Its publication will permit it to reach a greater audience and to contribute more fully to the understanding and appreciation of this geopolitical and cultural movement. Jwaideh was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, into an Arabic-speaking Christian family that later moved to Baghdad. His intimate knowledge of the land and its people gave Jwaideh shrewd insight into Kurdish society and politics. Exploring the rich historical roots of the Kurdish national movement, he challenges the established view of the early Kurdish uprisings as isolated incidents triggered by economic hardship or political dissatisfaction. Instead he offers a new interpretation of the Kurds’ nationalist position, convincingly demonstrating the age and depth of their grievances. This complex and layered history of the Kurdish nationalist movement offers a valuable perspective from which to view the current conditions in Iraq. Jwaideh’s sensitive and prescient treatment of this region gives his study great contemporary relevance.
Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: Hilde Nielssen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9004207694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire “to the ends of the world”. Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain. Engaging in activities from education, health care and development aid to religion, ethnography and collection of material culture, Christian missionaries considered themselves as global actors working for the benefit of common humanity. Yet, the missionaries came from, and operated within a variety of nation-states. Thus this volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.
Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities
Author: Joanna Bocheńska
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 3319930885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran), linking different theoretical approaches within a postcolonial perspective. The first chapter presents the book’s approach to postcolonial theory and gives a brief introduction to the historical context of Kurdistan. The second, third and fourth chapters focus on the Kurdish context, examining ethical changes as revealed in Kurdish literary and cinema narratives, the socio-political role of the Kurdish cultural institutions and the practices of countering othering of Kurdish migrants living in Istanbul. The fifth chapter offers an analysis of the nineteenth-century missionary translations of the Bible into the Kurdish language. The sixth chapter examines the formation of Chaldo-Assyrian identity in the context of relations with the Kurds after the overthrow of the Ba’ath regime in 2003. The last chapter investigates the question of the Yezidis’ identity, based on Yezidi oral works and statements about their self-identification.
The Missionary Herald
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Mapping Kurdistan
Author: Zeynep Kaya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-25
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1108474691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how the idea of Kurdistan, as a homeland and a source of national identity, was created within international political history.
