Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans write by Hirmis Aboona. This book was released on 2008. Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many scholars, in the U.S. and elsewhere, have decried the racism and "Orientalism" that characterizes much Western writing on the Middle East. Such writings conflate different peoples and nations, and movements within such peoples and nations, into unitary and malevolent hordes, uncivilized reservoirs of danger, while ignoring or downplaying analogous tendencies towards conformity or barbarism in other regions, including the West. Assyrians in particular suffer from Old Testament and pop culture references to their barbarity and cruelty, which ignore or downplay massacres or torture by the Judeans, Greeks, and Romans who are celebrated by history as ancestors of the West. This work, through its rich depictions of tribal and religious diversity within Mesopotamia, may help serve as a corrective to this tendency of contemporary writing on the Middle East and the Assyrians in particular. Furthermore, Aboona's work also steps away from the age-old oversimplified rubric of an "Arab Muslim" Middle East, and into the cultural mosaic that is more representative of the region. In this book, author Hirmis Aboona presents compelling research from numerous primary sources in English, Arabic, and Syriac on the ancient origins, modern struggles, and distinctive culture of the Assyrian tribes living in northern Mesopotamia, from the plains of Nineveh north and east to southeastern Anatolia and the Lake Urmia region. Among other findings, this book debunks the tendency of modern scholars to question the continuity of the Assyrian identity to the modern day by confirming that the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia told some of the earliest English and American visitors to the region that they descended from the ancient Assyrians and that their churches and identity predated the Arab conquest. It details how the Assyrian tribes of the mountain dioceses of the "Nestorian" Church of the East maintained a surprising degree of independence until the Ottoman governor of Mosul authorized Kurdish militia to attack and subjugate or evict them. Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans is a work that will be of great interest and use to scholars of history, Middle Eastern studies, international relations, and anthropology.
Assyrians
Assyrians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assyrians write by Frederick A. Aprim. This book was released on 2006. Assyrians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the establishment of Islam as a state religion in the Fertile Crescent by the 8th century, the ferocious attacks by the Timurids, plundering the region as they descended from Central Asia in the 14th century, drove many Christian Aramaic speakers who did not convert to Islam into the mountains of the Taurus, Hakkari, and the Zagros for shelter. Others remained in their ancestral villages on the Mosul (Nineveh) Plain only to face heavy pressure to assimilate into Arab culture. The greatest catastrophe to visit the Assyrians in the modern period was the genocide committed against them, as Christians, during the Great War. From the Assyrian renaissance experienced when, miraculously, they became the objects of Western Christian missionary educational and medical efforts, the Assyrians fell into near oblivion. Shunned by the Allies at the treaties that ended WWI, Assyrians drifted into Diaspora, destructive denominationalism, and fierce assimilation tendencies as exercised by chauvinistic Arab, Persian and Turkish state entities. Today they face the growing clout of their old enemies and neighbors, the Kurds, another Muslim ethnic group that threatens to control power, demand assimilation, and offer to engulf Assyrians as the price for continuing to live in the ancient Assyrian homeland. As half of the world's last Aramaic-speaking population has arrived in unwanted Diaspora, some voices are making an impact, including that of Frederick Aprim.
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genocide in the Ottoman Empire write by George N. Shirinian. This book was released on 2017-02-01. Genocide in the Ottoman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire’s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.
Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915
Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915 write by Joost Jongerden. This book was released on 2012-08-03. Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915, offers new perspectives on the political conflicts and violent events that shaped the history of the region.
The Assyrians of Turkey
The Assyrians of Turkey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Assyrians of Turkey write by Salahi Ramadan Sonyel. This book was released on 2001. The Assyrians of Turkey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
