Arşîva dîroka Kurdan

[image] Minted silver coin of the Ayyubid Kurdish Muslim ruler Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin), presenting himself with a Sāsānian-style three-pointed merlon crown, which he used to serve as a powerful symbol of legitimacy, which his pre-Islamic ancestors associated with the

[image] What are the origins of the Zazas? The Zazas are a Kurdish subgroup who speak an Adharic-derived language. This linguistic grouping also includes Talysh, Gorani, and various Tatic dialects. The Adharic grouping is an Iranian cluster tied to northwest Iran, distinct from the

[image] The ancient Greek Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276–194 BC) provides the earliest reliable attestation of the Kurds. Writing sometime after 240 BCE during the early Ptolemaic Kingdom (soon after the Achaemenid collapse), when he served as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria,

[image] According to our limited genetic understanding of horse breeds, the modern Kurdish horse does not descend from the Nisaean horse (Median horse). What seems to be indicated in the genetic literature is that the majority of modern horse breeds globally descend from Scythian horse

[image] Are Kurds ethnically Mede? The question itself is misleading because it assumes a clear misunderstanding of what a Mede was. In reality the Medes were not an ethnic group, but an organised tribal political group of Iranians much like the Mards, Sagartians, Persians, and many

[image] A complete historical compilation of what we know about the Kurds before the Islamic age. It includes only direct attestations of the Kurds by name, without the speculative claims linking them to Corduene, the Carduchii, and similar groups that have long since been debunked by

[image] Abu Hija, the Kurdish prince and minister of Saladin, along with 2,000 Kurdish horsemen, defeated the Bani Hilal tribe of 60,000 and punished them by seizing all their wealth.

[image] The empire that never existed: The Median empire. In Book 1 of The Histories, Herodotus devotes considerable attention to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire. He begins by describing the revolts of the Medes against the Neo-Assyrian Empire. According to his account, the Medes had

[image] The tattoo custom deq among Kurds is of post-Islamic Bedouin Arab origins. The very word deq is loaned from Arabic دَقّ (daqq), whose relevant definition means to strike, to knock, to drive in. It comes from the Semitic triconsonantal root D-Q-Q. It originally served many

[image] This major upcoming publication should not be understated in terms of how important it will be for the academic study of the Kurdish languages. It will provide a comprehensive scholarly overview of what we already know, while also building on that knowledge further. Importantly,

[image] Complete Kurdish history before the Islamic age (reupload because I mistakenly didn't screenshot my commentary I had written on the Kār-Nāmag). As stated previously, any connection to Corduene/Carduchi/etc, is not listed here given that it is not only unlikely, but entirely

[text] Are Kurds Iranian? Undoubtedly yes. For those struggling to comprehend that words can have more than one meaning, the term "Iranian" is indeed one such case where it carries various meanings. The term "Iranian" is not just a passport, nor was the term "Iran" coined in 1935. The

[image] One of the great ironies surrounding the various grand bazaars becoming emblematic symbols of Kurdish cities is that their normalisation over the past several hundred years is itself a product of “Turco-Persianate” influence. The very word bazaar is a Persian loanword in Kurdish,

[image] Approximate religious demographics of southern Kurdistan during the high medieval period (900AD - 1300AD). Southern Kurdistan's traditional association with Shiism is often traced to the rise of the Kurdish Hasanwayhid dynasty, yet Sunni presence appears to have remained

[image] This supposed ancient Kurdish script described in the book Shawq al Mustahām fī Maʿrifat Rumūz al Aqlām is complete fan fiction that was not even written by Ibn Waḥshiyya. It is a spurious work falsely attributed to him by a much later author in order to increase the legitimacy

[image] That's a good explanation; however, I have an objection to the beginning. I believe the Zaza-Goran group were originally Kurds from the Media Atropatene region. Their distance from Persian influence allowed them to preserve the North-Western character of their language – quite