INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reza Shah, Shia Islam, Northern Kurdish
27 Nov 2017
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Key ideas: who are the kurds, ethno-nationalism: policiation of ethnicity, large political space in the late imperial period, transition to the constitutional monarchy, transition to islamic republic. Kurds: divided between the borders of turkey, iran, iran and syria, indo-eropean language related to persian (three dialects, kurmanji, sorani and zaza, religion 6% shafiite suni islam, 25% divided between shiite muslims (15%, a strong tribal element. Politics affects how national identity becomes insitutionalised and the various forms of nationalism may assume: kurdish national identity developed based on the nature of the political space in each state (iran, iraq and turkey). Political opportunity and politicisation of kurdish identity in iran: large political space in the late imperial period, transition to the constitutional monarchy, transition to islamic republic. Anti-arab and anti-turks: resa khan is fond of atuturk, bans. Changing political structure: the shah"s policies favoured persian speaking groups, politcal vacuum after wwii, soviet penetration.
