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Oct 2023
45m 24s

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authori...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, assistant professor of history at Florida State University, on “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege” (Edinburgh University Press). The book narrates the rise and fall of the Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire’s east, as well as how their autonomy was removed as the empire modernised and centra ... Show More
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