Mehrdad Izady

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Mehrdad Michael Izady ( Kurdish : Mihrdad Ízedí ; * 1963 ) is a Kurdish writer who deals with ethnic and cultural topics.

Career

He is the son of a Kurdish father and a Belgian mother. Since his parents were diplomats, he spent much of his youth in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and South Korea. Mehrdad Izady made in 1976 at the University of Kansas his Bachelor's degree in History, Political Science and Geography. He advanced his studies at Syracuse University and obtained a master's degree in remote sensing - cartography and international relations . In 1992 he received his PhD from Columbia University's Middle Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations faculty .

He then taught at Harvard University and the Joint Special Operations University in Florida for six years . He had also testified before two congressional committees and wrote several books and articles on the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Since 2001 he has worked at the history faculty at Fordham University and Pace University .

Izady is also a cartographer who has made many ethno-linguistic maps, among other things. The maps are used by many atlases and works such as National Geographic , The Economist , the UN and the US military. A wide selection is online under the name Gulf 2000 Project of Columbia University achievable.

Izady postulates an angel cult (Yazdânism), to which the Kurds belonged before their Islamization. The current religions and denominations of the Alevis , the Yazidis and the Ahl-e Haqq are said to have emerged from this Kurdish religion . In addition, he depicts some ancient empires and peoples such as Adiabene and Commagene as Kurdish.

Works

Books

  1. The Kurds: A Concise Handbook , 268 pages, Taylor & Francis Publishers, 1992, ISBN 0844817279
  2. The Sharafnâma, Or, The History of the Kurdish Nation, 1597 , By Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi, translated into English and annotated by M. Izady, 302 pages, Mazda Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1568590741

Book chapter

  1. Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Kurdish Predicament , pp. 71-99 in "Iran, Iraq and the Legacies of War", Edited by Lawrence G. Potter, Gary G. Sick, 224 pp., Pekgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 1403976090
  2. Kurds , Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 1759 pp. Rouledge Publishers, 2006. ISBN 1579583881
  3. Kurds and the Foundations of the State of Iraq, 1917-1932 , pp. 95-109, in "The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921", Edited by Reeva S. Simon, Eleanor Harvey Tejirian, 181 pp, Columbia University Press , 2004. ISBN 0231132921
  4. Gulf and Indian Ocean Basin Ethnic Diversity: An Evolutionary History in "Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles and the Search for Consensus", Edited by G. Sick and L. Potter, 284 pp., Palgrave Press, 2002. ISBN 0312239505 .
  5. The Geopolitical Realities of Kurdistan vs. Hopes for a New World Order in "Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order", Edited by Phyllis Bennis, Michel Moushabeck, 538 S., Interlink Pub Group Inc, 1998. ISBN 1566561124
  6. The Kurdish Demographic Revolution and Its Socio-Political Implications in "Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East", Edited by Ole Høiris, Sefa Martin Yürükel, Aarhus University Press, 562 pp., 1997. ISBN 8772886919
  7. E uno plurium ?: A Projection on the Future of the National Minorities and their Identity in the 21st-Century in "The Transnationalization of Ethnicity and World Politics", Edited by J. Cole and E. Skinner, Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center , Howard University, 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mehrdad R. Izady, KURDISTANICA ( Memento from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ RS Simon, EH Tejirian, The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 , p. 171
  3. ^ The Kurds: A Concise Handbook, p. 137
  4. ^ Iran, Iraq and the Legacies of War

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personal data
SURNAME Izady, Mehrdad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehrdad Michael Izady, Mihrdad Ízedí
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Kurdish writer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963