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INTERNATIONAL KURDISH SYMPOSIUM - I

RELIGION, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE

 

Since ancient times, religion, history, language, and culture have been key factors shaping the identity and spiritual character of nations. Therefore, recognizing and understanding the characteristics of nations is possible only through research into their religion, history, language, and culture. Due to the specific circumstances of Kurdish society, research on Kurdish beliefs, history, language, and culture has not reached the level of that in developed nations, making further work and focus in this area necessary. This symposium, organized jointly by the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature of the Sezai Karakoç Faculty of Literature at Dicle University and the Faculty of Theology at Dicle University, aims to advance these studies to a higher level. With this event, we seek to direct the attention of researchers in this field to understudied or unexplored topics related to Kurdish beliefs, history, language, and culture. Within this framework, we plan to examine the following topics at the symposium:

 

1. Kurdish madrasas

2. Sufism among the Kurds

3. Religious works in Kurdish

4. Religious movements among the Kurds

5. Kurdish language and literature

6. Kurdish folklore

7. Kurdish history

8. Kurdish ethnography and sociology

9. Kurdish geography

10. Kurdish education and academia

11. Kurdish architecture

 

Studies on the topics outlined above will be accepted in Kurdish, Turkish, English, Arabic, and Persian. We kindly request that researchers pay attention to the deadlines for application, abstract submission, and full text submission, and adhere to scientific standards. Abstracts and full texts will be published as separate books. Submitted full texts will be published as book chapters.