Wadie Jwaideh

Wadie Elias Jwaideh (1 July 1916 – 9 March 2001)[1][2][3] was an Iraqi American professor of history known for his work on the Kurds.

Biography

Jwaideh was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, into an Arabic-speaking Christian family that later moved to Baghdad. In 1942 he received a Licentiate in Law from the University of Baghdad and in 1960 a Ph.D. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. During this time, he also held a lecturer position in Arabic at Johns Hopkins University. After graduating he joined the faculty of Indiana University as a history professor, where he founded the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature. He retired in 1985 and moved to San Diego where he was an adjunct professor of history at the University of California, San Diego until 1990.[4] An annual lecture is given in his honor at Indiana University.[4]

Jwaideh and the Kurds

His book “The Kurdish National Movement” was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006. The book was published in book form by Syracuse University Press 46 years after was published as a Ph.D. thesis; the thesis had long been known to and cited by scholars.[5]

Jwaideh understood the Kurdish socio-political system as operating at a tribal (aşiret) level before the twentieth century. According to Jwaideh, individual Kurdish leaders who attained political power did so within wider Muslim political structures, not within the Kurdish community.[6][7] In Jwaideh's view, Kurdish identity is fundamentally tribal and more secular than religious.[7][6] While acknowledging the "classic" status of Jwaideh's Kurdish National Movement, M. Hakan Yavuz asserts that Jwasdeh's characterization of Kurdish identity as being predominantly secular is fundamentally different from Kemalist secularism.[8]

Books

• The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development: Syracuse University Press. 2004.[9][10]
• The Introductory Chapters of Yaqut's Mu'jam Al-Buldan by Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī / Wadie Jwaideh (Jan 1, 1959).[11][12]
• Islamic and Middle Eastern societies : a festchrift in honor of Professor Wadie Jwaideh (1987) Amana Books ISBN 0915597292
• al-Idrīsī: [Chicago] Encyclopædia Britannica, 1974.
• Wadie Jwaideh collection, Consists mainly of photocopies of British Foreign Office dispatches from the period between 1836 and 1924.[13]

References

1. "Wadie Jwaideh in Social Security Death Index".
2. "Professor emeritus dies at 84".
3. "Ethnic Hoosier - May 2001 | Nationalities Council of Indiana". www.nationalitiescouncil.org. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019.
4. "Wadie Jwaideh". Indiana University. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
5. "The Kurdish National Movement Its Origins and Development by Wadie Jwaideh :: Syracuse University Press :: Syracuse New York". Syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
6. Özcan, Ali Kemal (2012). Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Ocalan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1134211296. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
7. White, Paul (2000). Primitive Rebels Or Revolutionary Modernizers?: The Kurdish National. ZED Books. p. 18. ISBN 1856498220. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
8. Yavuz, M. Hakan (2009). Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey. Cambridge University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0521888783. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
9. Olson, Robert (2007). "Review of The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 39 (4): 676–677. doi:10.1017/S0020743807071279. JSTOR 30069507. S2CID 161308085.
10. Kuntz, Blair (2007). "Review of The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Mohamed El-Hindi books on Arab culture and Islamic civilization. Contemporary issues in the Middle East". MELA Notes (80): 81–83. JSTOR 29785870.
11. Masnou, P. (1962). "Review of The Introductory Chapters of Yāqūt's Muʿǧam al-Buldān". Arabica. 9 (1): 105. JSTOR 4055111.
12. Faris, Nabih Amin (1960). "Review of The Introductory Chapters of Yaqut's Mu'jam Al-buldan". Middle East Journal. 14 (1): 98. JSTOR 4323207.
13. "The Introductory Chapters of Yagut' s Mu'jam Al-Buldan". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.

External links

• Indiana Daily Student
• Kurdish Academy of Language
• Kurdish Institute of Paris