<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Kurdish History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kurdish History]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 04:31:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.kurdish-history.com/ku/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Baban Dynasty: The Kurdish Principality of Sulaymaniyah and the Babani Literary School (1649–1850)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For two centuries — from 1649 to 1850 — a Kurdish dynasty governed the rugged Shahrizor plain and its mountain hinterlands as the principal Ottoman-side counterpart to the Iranian Ardalan principality across the frontier. The Baban dynasty (Babani in Kurdish) ruled from a sequence of mountain capitals — first Qalachwalan, then from 1784 the magnificent new city of Sulaymaniyah — and built one of the most consequential Kurdish polities of the early modern period. Their founder...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/baban-dynasty-kurdish-sulaymaniyah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fdaf387bccf7fb9df5d41b</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 09:39:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ardalan Dynasty: The Longest-Surviving Kurdish Dynasty in History (1169–1867)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For seven hundred years — from the late twelfth century to the late nineteenth — a Kurdish dynasty governed the mountain heartland of Iranian Kurdistan from its capital at Sanandaj. The Ardalan principality (Mirneshini Erdelan in Kurdish, Bani Ardalan in the Arabic-Persian sources) is the longest-surviving Kurdish dynasty in history. Founded according to dynastic tradition by Baba Ardalan around 1169, securely documented in the historical record from the fourteenth century...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/ardalan-dynasty-kurdish-sanandaj</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd37964f7ebdc9f6a8241a</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:08:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hazaraspid Dynasty: The Kurdish Atabegs of Greater Lorestan (1148–1424)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For 276 years — longer than the United States has existed as a nation — a Kurdish dynasty ruled the mountain heartland of southwestern Iran. The Hazaraspids, also known as the Atabegs of Greater Lorestan (Atabakan-i Lor-i Buzurg) and as the Fadluyids or Fazlawayhids after their tribal eponym, were the great Kurdish-Lur dynasty of the medieval Zagros. Founded around 1148 by Abu Tahir ibn Muhammad, a Salghurid governor who declared independence in Lorestan, the dynasty took its...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/hazaraspid-dynasty-kurdish-lorestan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd3403666cfccd94189fd5</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:53:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rawadid Dynasty: The Kurdish Lords of Tabriz and Iranian Azerbaijan (955–1071)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction From the middle of the tenth century to the late eleventh, a Kurdicized dynasty of mixed Arab and Iranian origin ruled the Iranian region of Azerbaijan from its capital at Tabriz. The Rawadids — also written Rawwadid, Ravvadid, and Revend in the Kurdish chronicles — were the Kurdish lords of Tabriz, Maragha, Ardabil, and the strongholds of the Sahand mountain. They presided over Azerbaijan during one of the most consequential centuries in Iranian history: the era when the Oghuz...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/rawadid-dynasty-kurdish-tabriz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd31b74f7ebdc9f6a8108d</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:43:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ayyubid Empire: Saladin's Kurdish Dynasty and the Largest Kurdish State in History (1171–1341)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction The Ayyubid Empire was the largest, most powerful, and most consequential Kurdish state in history. Founded by Saladin — Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub — in 1171, the dynasty he established at Cairo unified Egypt, Syria, the Jazira, the Hejaz, and Yemen under a single Sunni Muslim Kurdish house, expelled the Crusaders from Jerusalem in 1187, defeated three successive Christian invasions of the Holy Land, and presided over a century and a half of architectural, scholarly, and...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/ayyubid-empire-saladin-kurdish-dynasty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd3027666cfccd94189358</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:36:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Annazid Dynasty: The Kurdish Lords of Hulwan and the Iran-Iraq Frontier (990–1117)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For more than a century — perhaps for as long as 130 years — a Kurdish dynasty governed the rugged frontier where the Iranian plateau falls away to the Mesopotamian plain. The Annazids, drawn from the Shadhanjan Kurdish tribal confederation, ruled an oscillating territory across what is now the Iran-Iraq border from roughly 990 to the late twelfth century, with their capital at Hulwan (modern Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province) and their secondary centres at Shahrazur,...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/annazid-dynasty-kurdish-hulwan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd2e984f7ebdc9f6a80641</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:30:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hasanwayhid Dynasty: The Kurdish Lords of the Central Zagros (959–1015)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For just over half a century, a Kurdish dynasty controlled one of the most strategically important mountain regions of the medieval Islamic world. The Hasanwayhids — Twelver Shia Muslim, drawn from the Barzikani Kurdish tribal confederation — ruled the central Zagros from roughly 959 to 1015, governing a principality that stretched from the Iranian plateau to the upper Tigris frontier. From their capital at Dinawar and their fortified mountain stronghold at Sarmaj near Bisotun,...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/hasanwayhid-dynasty-kurdish-zagros</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd20894f7ebdc9f6a7dedd</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:30:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Marwanid Dynasty: A Kurdish Golden Age in Diyarbakir and the Jazira (983–1085)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For just over a century, a Kurdish dynasty built one of the most remarkable polities of the medieval Middle East. The Marwanids — Sunni Muslim, Humaydi Kurdish in tribal origin, descended from a fierce shepherd-turned-warrior named Badh ibn Dustak — ruled the Diyar Bakr region of upper Mesopotamia from 983 to 1085. Their capital at Mayyafariqin (modern Silvan) became a centre of learning, architecture, and inter-religious coexistence; their court welcomed Syriac Christian...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/marwanid-dynasty-kurdish-diyarbakir</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fd168f4a8c9ae8a6ba371d</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:47:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shaddadid Dynasty: The First Kurdish State in the Caucasus (951–1199)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction For nearly two and a half centuries, a Kurdish dynasty ruled the highlands and trade-cities of the South Caucasus. The Shaddadids — Sunni Muslim, Hadhbani Kurdish in origin, frontier kings and architects of one of the great surviving monuments of medieval Islamic architecture — were the first Kurdish state to govern the Caucasus, and one of the longest-lived Kurdish political entities of the medieval period. From their founder Muhammad ibn Shaddad's seizure of Dvin in 951 to the...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/shaddadid-dynasty-kurdish-caucasus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fcc8e2666cfccd941768f3</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:16:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of Osroene and the Abgarid Dynasty: The Frontier Kingdom on Kurdistan's Southern Edge (132 BCE – 244 CE)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction to the Kingdom of Osroene For nearly four centuries, a small kingdom on the southern edge of the Kurdish plateau punched far above its weight in the politics of the ancient Near East. The Kingdom of Osroene, ruled from its great capital at Edessa — known today as Şanlıurfa, and to the Kurds as Riha — sat at the meeting point of four worlds: Aramaean Mesopotamia, Iranian Parthia, Hellenistic Anatolia, and the Arab tribal lands stretching south. Its rulers, the Abgarid dynasty,...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/kingdom-of-osroene-abgar-dynasty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fcbff1ff1f3255572a465b</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish States]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:51:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_fd72a679055544faac70fd248a9844d3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahabad Qaradaghi: Kurdish Iraqi Scholar and Academic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Mahabad Qaradaghi?   Mahabad Qaradaghi was a Kurdish Iraqi scholar born in 1966 in the Qaradagh region of Sulaymaniyah who contributed to Kurdish academic and intellectual life before his death in 2020. His name — Mahabad, recalling the city of the Kurdish Republic, and Qaradaghi, referring to his region — connects him to the traditions of Kurdish cultural and political identity.   He is listed among the notable Kurdish scholars of his generation and represents the tradition of Kurdish...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/mahabad-qaradaghi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb0f49fa0baa4b8b78b11</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:21:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mehmet Özdemir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Şehrîbana Kurdî: Contemporary Kurdish Female Poet of the Diaspora]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Şehrîbana Kurdî?   Şehrîbana Kurdî — whose pen name means 'the sweetheart of Kurdistan' or 'the beloved of the Kurds' — is a contemporary Kurdish female poet writing in Kurmanji Kurdish whose poetry gives voice to the experience of Kurdish women in the diaspora: the longing for homeland, the experience of displacement, and the feminist consciousness of a Kurdish woman navigating between cultures.   Her pen name is itself a political statement — claiming Kurdistan as a beloved homeland...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/sehribana-kurdi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb0f15caf4ed272c0972d</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:21:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sara Omar: Kurdish-Danish Novelist Who Broke the Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Sara Omar?   Sara Omar (Kurdish: سارا عومه‌ر) is a Kurdish-Danish author, poet, and human rights activist born on 21 August 1986 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. She is the first internationally recognised female novelist from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and her debut novel Dødevaskeren ("The Dead Washer", 2017) became a literary phenomenon in Denmark — selling over 100,000 copies and being hailed by Danish media as "the MeToo of Muslim women."   She writes in Danish about...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/sara-omar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb0ef5caf4ed272c09721</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_0ab2bcfcae52436f95a5820a3e2d4cf6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dala Sarkis</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dilshad Meriwani: Beloved Kurdish Singer Taken Too Soon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Dilshad Meriwani?   Dilshad Meriwani was a Kurdish Iraqi singer born in 1947 in the Meriwan area of Iraqi Kurdistan who became one of the most beloved Kurdish musical voices of his generation before being killed in 1989 during the Anfal genocide — the Ba'athist campaign of mass murder against the Kurdish people that killed between 50,000 and 180,000 Kurds.   His death at age 42 during the Anfal — which destroyed hundreds of Kurdish villages and killed tens of thousands — made him one...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/dilshad-meriwani</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb0ec9fa0baa4b8b78afe</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:21:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rezan Babakir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tuncer Bakırhan: Kurdish Co-Chair of Turkey's DEM Party]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Tuncer Bakırhan?   Tuncer Bakırhan is a Kurdish Turkish politician born in 1970 who serves as co-chair of the DEM Party — the successor to the HDP — continuing the tradition of Kurdish democratic political leadership in Turkey that runs from Selahattin Demirtaş through Pervin Buldan to the present.   The DEM Party (Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi — Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party) was formed as the successor to the HDP following court proceedings that threatened the HDP's...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/tuncer-bakirhan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb082b27e981e27ca9a2e</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:20:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jamal Latif</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widad Akrawi: Kurdish Iraqi-Swedish Educator and Global Peace Builder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Widad Akrawi?   Widad Akrawi is a Kurdish Iraqi-Swedish educator and peace builder born in 1969 in Iraqi Kurdistan who has built an internationally recognised career in education for peace, tolerance, and human rights. She is the founder and director of the Culture of Peace Initiative and has worked with UNESCO and other international organisations on education programmes in conflict and post-conflict settings.   Her work brings the perspective of a Kurdish woman who experienced war,...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/widad-akrawi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb07f7c50fb68b37f0f5e</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Mehmet Özdemir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kajal Ahmad: Kurdish Poet of Kirkuk and Voice of Kurdish Women's Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Kajal Ahmad?   Kajal Ahmad is a Kurdish Iraqi poet born in 1967 in Kirkuk — the disputed, ethnically complex, oil-rich city that has been at the centre of Kurdish-Arab-Turkmen tensions for decades — who is one of the most celebrated contemporary Kurdish female poets. Her Sorani poetry, characterised by emotional directness, feminist consciousness, and deep roots in the cultural complexity of Kirkuk, has been translated into multiple languages and brought her international recognition. ...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/kajal-ahmad</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb07d5caf4ed272c09650</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sherko Sabir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sirwan Barzani: Kurdish Military Commander and Governor of Erbil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Sirwan Barzani?   Sirwan Barzani is a Kurdish Iraqi military and political figure born in 1970, the son of Masoud Barzani, who has served as a senior Peshmerga commander and as Governor of Erbil Province. He commanded Peshmerga forces in critical battles against ISIS in 2014-2017, including in the defence of the Kirkuk area and other contested territories.   He represents the military dimension of the Barzani family's leadership — the operational commander who led Peshmerga forces in...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/sirwan-barzani</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb07ab27e981e27ca9a26</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dala Sarkis</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowsch Shaways: Kurdish Vice President of Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Rowsch Shaways?   Rowsch Shaways was a Kurdish Iraqi politician born in 1947 who served as Vice President of Iraq and as Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region — one of the most senior Kurdish statesmen of his generation. He was a senior figure in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and served in multiple high-level positions that bridged the Kurdish regional government and the Iraqi federal government.   His career spanned the armed struggle against Saddam Hussein, the liberation...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/rowsch-shaways</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbb0765caf4ed272c0963e</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rezan Babakir</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narmin Othman: Kurdish Iraqi Politician and Minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who Is Narmin Othman?   Narmin Othman is a Kurdish Iraqi politician born in 1948 who served in multiple ministerial positions in the Iraqi federal government — including as Minister of Environment and Minister of Human Rights. She is a senior figure in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and represents the Kurdish community's participation in Iraqi federal governance at the ministerial level.   She is the sister of Mahmoud Othman — the independent Kurdish political voice — and is herself...]]></description><link>https://www.kurdish-history.com/post/narmin-othman</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fbafd89fa0baa4b8b78902</guid><category><![CDATA[Kurdish Icons]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:17:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/28a046_88134e991b324ac0b01decb47156e518~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_250,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jamal Latif</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>