Kurdish History Journal
Şerif Pasha (1865-1951) was a Kurdish Ottoman diplomat who represented Kurdish national aspirations at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, negotiating for Kurdish self-determination after World War I.
Read article →Mevlanzade Rifat Bey (1869-1930) was a Kurdish journalist and Ottoman intellectual who published newspapers and memoirs documenting the final years of the Ottoman Empire and the Young Turk era.
Read article →Abdulhakim Arvasi (1865-1943) was a Kurdish Naqshbandi Sufi scholar whose traditional Islamic teachings made him one of the most prominent religious opponents of Kemalist secularisation in Turkey.
Read article →Abdullah Pasha Bajalan was an 18th-century Kurdish leader of the Bajalan tribal confederation, one of the important Kurdish tribes of the Sulaymaniyah region in Ottoman Kurdistan.
Read article →Ibrahim Pasha al-Dalati was an 18th-century Kurdish Ottoman governor, part of the tradition of Kurdish Pashas who served in the Ottoman administrative system in the early modern period.
Read article →Haydar Khan Zanganeh was an 18th-century Kurdish notable from the Zanganeh tribal confederation — the last generation of the remarkable Zanganeh political dynasty that shaped Safavid Iran.
Read article →Uthman Siraj-ud-Din Naqshbandi (1781-1867) was a Kurdish Naqshbandi Sufi master from the Barzinja family whose order shaped religious and political life in southern Kurdistan for generations.
Read article →Khalid-i Shahrazuri (1779-1827), Kurdish Sufi from Shahrazur, founded the Khalidiyya branch of the Naqshbandiyya — which became the dominant Sufi order in the Ottoman Empire and remains globally influential today.
Read article →Suleiman al-Halabi (1777-1800) was a Kurdish student from Aleppo who assassinated French General Jean-Baptiste Kleber in Egypt in 1800, becoming a symbol of resistance to the Napoleonic occupation.
Read article →Allahqoli Khan Zanganeh was a Kurdish notable from the Zanganeh tribal confederation — part of the remarkable political dynasty that shaped the Safavid and post-Safavid history of western Iran.
Read article →Khulam Rada Khan Arkawazi (1765-?) was a Kurdish notable from the Arkawaz region, listed among the notable Kurds of the late 18th century Ottoman-Iranian period.
Read article →Al-Barzanjī was an 18th-century Kurdish Islamic scholar from the Barzanji family — one of the most distinguished families of religious scholars in Kurdistan, whose members produced significant works of Islamic literature.
Read article →Zaro Aga (1777-1934), a Kurdish man from Bitlis, is claimed to have lived to the age of 157 — making him a candidate for the longest-lived human in recorded history, though the claim remains debated.
Read article →Xelîlê Sêrtî (1754-?) was a Kurdish poet and scholar from Siirt, representing the tradition of classical Kurdish Kurmanji poetry in southeastern Turkey in the late 18th century.
Read article →Marif Nodeyi (1753-18th century) was a Kurdish Gorani poet active in the late 18th century, part of the rich tradition of classical Gorani poetry that flourished under Ardalan patronage.
Read article →Mohammed el Kebir (1713-1797) was a Kurdish-origin Bey of Oran who recaptured the city from two centuries of Spanish occupation in 1792, becoming a celebrated figure in Algerian national history.
Read article →Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh was a Kurdish notable from the Zanganeh tribal confederation — part of the remarkable political dynasty that produced governors and a Grand Vizier across the Safavid era.
Read article →Mohamed Pasha Jaff was a Kurdish leader of the powerful Jaff tribal confederation — one of the largest Kurdish tribes straddling the Ottoman-Iranian border in the Kurdistan region.
Read article →Almas Khan-e Kanoule'ei (born 1706) was a Kurdish notable of the 18th century, part of the tradition of Kurdish political figures navigating the turbulent post-Safavid world.
Read article →Karim Khan Zand (1705-1779), Kurdish founder of the Zand dynasty, ruled Iran for over two decades as Vakil al-Rayya (Regent of the People), bringing peace and prosperity after decades of devastating civil war.
Read article →Khana Qubadi (1700-1759), Kurdish Gorani poet of the Ardalan court, is the greatest classical poet in Gorani — his poem Befre Baran is one of the most beloved lyrics in all Kurdish literature.
Read article →Mohammed el Kebir (1734-?) was a Kurdish political and military leader of the 18th century whose epithet el Kebir (the Great) reflects exceptional distinction among his contemporaries.
Read article →Shahqoli Khan Zanganeh was a Kurdish notable from the Zanganeh tribal confederation, continuing the family tradition of political service that produced governors and officials across the Safavid Empire.
Read article →Mohamed Pasha Jaff was a Kurdish leader of the Jaff tribal confederation with the Ottoman title of Pasha, representing one of the largest Kurdish tribes in the Sulaymaniyah region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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