Kurdish Nobility and the Ottoman State in the Long Nineteenth Century

Studies the making and unmaking of the Ottoman Empire’s Kurdish nobility Challenges a long-standing spatial-geographical bias in Ottoman-Middle East history by bringing Kurdish and Armenian histories back into the Ottoman imperial framework Presents the first study to use the framework of hereditary nobility to examine Kurdish elite formation and its decline in the Ottoman EmpireDemonstrates the complex social, economic and political background to massacres and pogroms that targeted the Armenian