International Journal of Kurdish Studies
Encyclopedia
- Not to the confused with Peeter's Journal of Kurdish Studies (print , electronic )
The International Journal of Kurdish Studies is an academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
published by the Kurdish Library
Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America
Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, also known as Kurdish Library and Museum, is a cultural organization based in Brooklyn, New York. It collects items related to Kurdish culture, literature and history. Its library contains around 2,000 volumes on Kurdish-related subjects...
, and was edited by Vera Beaudin Saeedpour
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour , was an American researcher and scholar who specialized in the study of Kurdish people. She founded the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, the first library and museum in the United States dedicated to the subject...
. It publishes scholarly articles about Kurdish culture
Kurdish culture
Kurdish culture is a group of distinctive cultural traits practiced by Kurdish people...
, literature
Kurdish literature
Kurdish literature refers to literature written in Kurdish language. Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri is one of the first well-known poets who wrote in Kurdish...
, and history. It was founded in 1986 as Kurdish Times before getting its current title after volume 4. The journal is indexed by the Index Islamicus
Index Islamicus
Index Islamicus is a bibliography database of publications about Islam and the Muslim world, first compiled in 1956 by James Douglas Pearson. It is compiled by C.H. Bleaney & S. Sinclair and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and published by Brill Publishers.- External links :* ,...
.