Shamdinani Stories I: Kurdish Writings on the History and Culture of Central Kurdistan by Mullah Sa'id Shamdinani

During the First World War, in the city of Urmia of West Iran, the Russian consul Basile Nikitine recruited the Kurdish Mullah Sa'id of Shamdinan to assist him in the study of the Kurdish language and history. Their collaboration resulted in a rich corpus of cultural and historical texts. Despite several attempts by 20th century Kurdology, the texts remained unuplished. For the first time this volume presents all of the Kurdish texts of the corpus with parallel English translations, accompa...