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Vasilyeva E.I. South Eastern Kurdistan from 16th to 19th Century. Sources on the History of the Kurdish Emirates of Ardelan and Baban [Юго-Восточный Курдистан в XVI—XIX вв. Источник по истории курдских
эмиратов Арделан и Бабан]. St Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya 2016. 176 p. ISBN 978-5-4469-0775-5.
Summary
Information about Abdalqadir Babani, the author of the chronicle “Siyar alakrad”,
is very scarce. It does not go beyond the scanty facts he tells us about
himself in his book. He was bom in 1247/1831-32, presumably, in the city of
Suleymani, the capital of the Baban principality, into a noble Kurdish family
from Amir Mahmud Baban’s closest circle. In 1835, due to a complicated situation,
the family moved to Sanandaj, which was the main town of Ardelan, the
neighboring Kurdish emirate. The first half of the author’s life coincided in time
with a critical period in Kurdistan history: in the mid-19th century, all the ruling
Kurdish dynasties in Baban, Hakkari, Bokhtan and other principalities were displaced,
the last of them being Bani Ardelan dynasty, which lost power in 1867.
The author and his family were so closely connected with the houses of the
displaced rulers that their life was drastically changed after those were removed
from power. Abdalqadir Babani began to write his book in the December of
1868, one year after the displacement of the last Ardelan amir. In 1870, he suspended
work on the Chronicle to complete it in a year after deciding to leave
Ardelan for Southern Kurdistan, namely for the areas known as “the Emirate of
Baban” which was the land where the author was bom and which belonged his
ancestors.
The history of the Emirates of Baban and Ardelan occupies a central place
in the Chronicle. The desire to write it came to the author when the principalities
were destroyed and all the structures associated with them were eliminated.
Consequently, it would be appropriate to consider the book as a “requiem” for
the old Kurdish rulers-amirs of Baban and Ardelan, whose power had crumbled
before his very eyes. PDF-files
Содержание, Вводное слово, Summary
Keywords
Abdalqadir Babani
Ardelan
Baban
Kurdish historiography
Kurdish history
Kurdistan
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