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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, accompanied by an introduction that outlines the historical and literary context, a Kurdish-English glossary and a map of locations. A rich compilation of primary sources documenting the cultural and political life of late 19th and early 20th century Kurdistan, the volume is a significant contribution to the study of the Kurdish language, literature, society and history.
Funded by the European Union (ERC, ALHOME, 101021183).
Funded by the European Union (ERC, ALHOME, 101021183).
Price: $147.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Kurdish Studies
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004754423
Format: Hardcover
David Neil MacKenzie (1926-2001) was a philologist of Iranian languages. He obtained his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 1957 and worked in the same university as a Lecturer of Kurdish and Iranian languages. In 1975 he was appointed as the chair of Oriental Philology at the University of Göttingen in Germany where he worked until his retirement in 1994. He was elected as a fellow of British Academy. MacKenzie published extensively on Middle Iranian languages as well as the Kurdish and Pashto. He is best known for his two volume Kurdish Dialect Studies (Oxford University Press, 1961, 1962) and Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1971).
Ergin Öpengin is a research associate in the Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of Kurdish and Iranian languages. He is the author of The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish: Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon (Reicher Verlag, 2016), a co-editor of Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics (University of Bamberg Press, 2019) as well as serving as an associate editor to Kurdish Studies Journal.
Ergin Öpengin is a research associate in the Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of Kurdish and Iranian languages. He is the author of The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish: Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon (Reicher Verlag, 2016), a co-editor of Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics (University of Bamberg Press, 2019) as well as serving as an associate editor to Kurdish Studies Journal.