The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege

by Nilay Özok-Gündoan

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.
The book centres on the crucial moment in the 1840s during which the Ottoman state set out to abolish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139950861X
• ISBN13: 9781399508612
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"