Dandamayev Excerpt: "It has repeatedly been argued that the Carduchi were the ancestors of the Kurds, but the Cyrtii Kurtioi mentioned by Polybius, Livy, and Strabo see MacKenzie, pp | Daftary, "Intellectual Traditions in Islam", I |
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Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc | , pg 2691: "A study of the pre-Islamic religion of the Kurds, an Iranian people who inhabited southern parts of Armenia from ancient times to present, has yet to be written"• Morony, "Iraq After the Muslim Conquest", Gorgias Press LLC, 2005 |
International Journal of Kurdish Studies | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p |
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
"The Name Kurd and its Philological Connexions" | David McDowall, A modern history of the Kurds, 515 pp |
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2500-1500 BC : a historical and cultural synthesis | ", "Kurds" in Encyclopaedia of Islam |
excerpt: "The ethnic label "Kurd" is first encountered in Arabic sources from the first centuries of the Islamic era; it seemed to refer to a specific variety of pastoral nomadism, and possibly to a set of political units, rather than to a linguistic group: once or twice, "Arabic Kurds" are mentioned.
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