Heresh Qaderi

The Kurds and their Others Heresh Qaderi

This book contains of a collection of articles that follow the same topic. The object of it is, on the one hand, the relationship between the Kurds and their others, on the other hand, the relationship between religion and ethnicity which synthesized in the state: The relation between Islam and Arab, Iran and Zoroastrianism and Kurds and Mithra. An independent history of the Kurds has never been written because the Kurds have never owned an empire-state since the science of history emerged. Great narratives of history narrate great empires. The Kurds, who did not own the empire and the state, have been removed from classical and modern historiographical narratives or reduced as a part of others such as Iran. The history of Kurds is the history of the otherness. As today, the three dominant ethnicities of the Middle East, suppress and reject the Kurds in the name of terrorists, secessionists, and the agent of imperialism, in the age of religion and mythology, they also suppressed and renounced the Kurds in the name of infidels, demons and Satan. Therefore, if we want to discover the history of Kurds and to find who they are, we must reveal the otherness of the others (Persian, Arab, and Turks) and re-value their binary opposition. They have always used religion to justify their domination and rejection of Kurds, in other words, religion is a hegemonic tool of ethnic domination and government its military and administrative tools. The Other in Middle Eastern religions has always been addressed to Kurds with titles such as evil, Ignorance, Darkness and Satan, so the Kurds are the Otherness of the Others. The question that arises is why Kurd is introduced as the Other?