The Kurdish national movement : its origins and development / Wadie Jwaideh ; with a foreword by Martin van Bruinessen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-395) and index.

Geographical, historical, and cultural background -- The social organization of the Kurds -- The suppression of the semiautonomous regimes in Kurdistan -- Shaykh ʻUbayd Allah of Nehri -- The impact of the young Turk revolution on Kurdish nationalism -- Russia's Kurdish policy -- The Kurds and World War I -- The situation of the Kurds in Turkey, Persia, and Syria after World War I -- Disturbances in the Mosul and Arbil Divisions of Iraqi Kurdistan after World War I -- Shaykh Mahmud and the rise and fall of the south Kurdish confederation in Iraqi Kurdistan after World War I -- Shaykh Mahmud's second rebellion -- The Kurdish rebellions in Turkey -- The Barzani rebellion of 1931-1932 -- The Barzani rebellion of Mulla Mustafa, 1943-1945, and the growth of Kurdish political organizations -- The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad -- The Kurds and the Kurdish question after the fall of Mahabad.