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Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

by Michael M. Gunter
2d ed. Scarecrow. (Historical Dictionaries of People & Cultures, No. 8). 2010. c.410p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9780810867512. $95. REF
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For this update of the 2003 edition, Gunter (Kurds Ascending) has reconsidered each entry and expanded the book's relaxed and edifying historical narrative to encompass recent events. Multiparagraph entries are organized alphabetically by terms translated from Kurdish. To orient readers, three maps detail Upper Kurdistan and postdiaspora pockets of Kurdish majority. A cache of black-and-white photographs at the book's center offers an enriching glimpse of significant Kurdish sites and figures. And of special value to researchers is the 90-page, thematically organized bibliography, which rounds out the book. Wonderful informational background to Michiel Hegener's photographically rich Kurds of Iraq (Mets & Schilt, 2010).
Reviewed by Savannah Schroll Guz , Apr 01, 2011
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