Genesis of Kurdistan. The Kurds in the Mamluk and Mongol East (1250-1340).
Sorbonne| N° d'inventaire | 9782724707656 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 470 p. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791035105723 |
In the mid-13th century, the Ayyubid dynasty was losing power in Egypt and soon in Syria. Saladin's Sultanate had been characterized by a strong Kurdish presence both within the kingdom's armies and in the highest civil, political, and judicial offices. Its fall, to the benefit of a group of Turkish military men of servile origin, the Mamluks, led to the gradual marginalization of Kurdish emirs and notables. The influence of the Kurds within the nascent Mamluk state was very real, but as it faded, it became a weak nuisance leading to futile conspiracies. The Kurds had only a peripheral political role in Egypt and Syria at the beginning of the 14th century.
What then became of the Kurdish ʿas ˙ abiyya (“esprit de corps”) that had sustained the Ayyubid dynasty? The historical phase that was opening marked the beginnings of a reconfiguration of the place of the Kurds in the Levant as well as on the margins of empires, in Kurdistan. This work aims to study the plural process of construction of a territory of the Kurds, between Anatolia and the Iranian plateau. Warlike tribes anchored their history in the mountains of this place of refuge. They established the intra- and inter-tribal order, the matrix of their autonomy. The great states of the Middle East (Mamluks and Mongol Ilkhanids), for their part, ratified this edifice and contributed decisively to the spatial transformations, through the power to name places and co-opt people. The paradoxical convergence of their rival imperial policies stands out as the crucial factor in the autochthonousization of the Kurds.
In the mid-13th century, the Ayyubid dynasty was losing power in Egypt and soon in Syria. Saladin's Sultanate had been characterized by a strong Kurdish presence both within the kingdom's armies and in the highest civil, political, and judicial offices. Its fall, to the benefit of a group of Turkish military men of servile origin, the Mamluks, led to the gradual marginalization of Kurdish emirs and notables. The influence of the Kurds within the nascent Mamluk state was very real, but as it faded, it became a weak nuisance leading to futile conspiracies. The Kurds had only a peripheral political role in Egypt and Syria at the beginning of the 14th century.
What then became of the Kurdish ʿas ˙ abiyya (“esprit de corps”) that had sustained the Ayyubid dynasty? The historical phase that was opening marked the beginnings of a reconfiguration of the place of the Kurds in the Levant as well as on the margins of empires, in Kurdistan. This work aims to study the plural process of construction of a territory of the Kurds, between Anatolia and the Iranian plateau. Warlike tribes anchored their history in the mountains of this place of refuge. They established the intra- and inter-tribal order, the matrix of their autonomy. The great states of the Middle East (Mamluks and Mongol Ilkhanids), for their part, ratified this edifice and contributed decisively to the spatial transformations, through the power to name places and co-opt people. The paradoxical convergence of their rival imperial policies stands out as the crucial factor in the autochthonousization of the Kurds.