1. At the beginning : The formation of the Kurdish-Ottoman nobility of Palu in the sixteenth century -- 2. Noble privilege on the ground, 1720s-1820s -- 3. The Kurdish nobility and the making of modern state power in Kurdistan -- 4. A system in transition : Negotiating nobility in the locality -- 5. The Weşin Incident : The spark that burnt a village ... and the arsonist -- 6. After Abdullah Beg : The politics of dividing the Kurdish nobles' lands -- 7. Provincial administration after the Palu nobility -- 8. The beginning of the endgame? The road to the 1895 massacres in Palu
Summary
"Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire's Kurdish nobility. This book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, a fortressed town in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, it provides the first systematic analysis of the hereditary nobility in Kurdistan."-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University
