Glossary of Abbreviations Glossary of Middle Eastern terms Foreword Ch 1. Introduction: Kurdish identity and social formation Book I THE KURDS IN THE AGE OF TRIBE AND EMPIRE Ch. 2. Kurdistan before the nineteenth century Ch. 3. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850 Ch. 4. Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1908 Ch.

5. The Qajars and the Kurds Ch. 6. Revolution, nationalism and war, 1900-1918 Book II INCORPORATING THE KURDS Ch. 7. Redrawing the map: the partition of Ottoman Kurdistan Ch. 8. The Kurds, Britain and Iraq Ch.

9. Incorporating Turkey's Kurds Book III ROJHILAT (EAST): NATIONALISM IN IRAN Ch. 10. The Kurds under Reza Shah Ch. 11. Tribe or ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic Ch. 12. Iran: Creating a national movement Ch.

13. Subjects of the Shi'i republic Book IV BASÛR (SOUTH): NATIONALISM IN IRAQ Ch. 14. The birth of the national movement under Hashemite rule Ch. 15. The Kurds in revolutionary Iraq Ch. 16. The Kurds under the Ba'th, 1968- 1975 Ch.

17. The road to genocide, 1975-1988 Ch. 18. Uprising and self-rule Book V BAKUR (NORTH): NATIONALISM IN TURKEY Ch. 19. The Kurdish national revival in Turkey, 1946-1979 Ch.20. The PKK and the mass movement Book VI ROJAVA (WEST): NATIONALISM IN SYRIA Ch.

21. Living apart in French and independent Syria Book VII INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE FIRST TWO DECADES Ch. 22. Iran's Kurds: no sign of the dawn Ch. 23. Syria's Kurds: coming of age in civil war Ch. 24. Turkey's Kurds: the search for resolution Ch.

25. Iraq's Kurds: from dream to disillusionment Book VIII DIASPORA KURDS Ch. 26. The Kurds in exile: building the nation AFTERWORD Appendix 1. The Treaty of Sèvres Appendix 2. The Kurds in Lebanon Appendix 3. The Kurds of the Caucasus.