Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Payame Noor University
10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080
Abstract
The Battle of Chaldoran has been the most important and influential battle of the last five hundred years. A battle that, in addition to changes in political, religious, and cultural geography, brought the greatest tension of a hundred years to the Mesopotamian regions, the Kurds, who were born of the Battle of Chaldoran. Many scholars have described the Battle of Chaldoran as a religious battle between two emerging governments, unaware of the so-called "Kurds and Kurdistan" changes in this tension and its consequences for Kurdish geography. The geopolitical and religious geography of Kurdistan, due to its religious divergence with the Safavids and its sectarian divide with the Hanafi Turks, created the main "other" for the two Moftadar governments, which was Kurdistan. The Kurds were hostile to the Ottomans due to their Iranian temperament and interest in Sufism, and due to their strong Sunni affiliation with the Safavids. In this situation, and due to the lack of trust between the two governments, the Kurds have always been in the sphere of tension between these two dominant fields in northern Mesopotamia, which still exists and the Kurdish identity revolts have been formed in this context. . . In a way, it can even be said that the treaties of Sykes-Picot, Sur and Lausanne, which interpreted modernity on the basis of ethnic geography, were born of the Battle of Chaldoran. This research deals with the analysis-description and hermeneutical view of the Kurdish political history in Chaldoran and post-Chaldoran and its border and identity borders for the Kurds of Mesopotamia.
hatami, M. (2024). A modern reading of Kurdish political history after Chaldoran. International Journal of Iranian-Islamic Studies, 14(1), -. doi: 10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080
MLA
hatami, M. . "A modern reading of Kurdish political history after Chaldoran", International Journal of Iranian-Islamic Studies, 14, 1, 2024, -. doi: 10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080
HARVARD
hatami, M. (2024). 'A modern reading of Kurdish political history after Chaldoran', International Journal of Iranian-Islamic Studies, 14(1), pp. -. doi: 10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080
CHICAGO
M. hatami, "A modern reading of Kurdish political history after Chaldoran," International Journal of Iranian-Islamic Studies, 14 1 (2024): -, doi: 10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080
VANCOUVER
hatami, M. A modern reading of Kurdish political history after Chaldoran. International Journal of Iranian-Islamic Studies, 2024; 14(1): -. doi: 10.30484/jii.2025.3100.1080