Summary of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan

The main motive for Muhammad Amin Zaki in starting this huge project, according to the introduction to his book, was the lack of academic information about the roots of the Kurds, as according to him, his feeling of national belonging increased after the fall of the empire. ottoman But he did not know anything about the history of the people he was affiliated with, and after inquiring about the roots of the Kurds from the heads of the Kurdish clans and the Kurdish religious scholars, he decided to start his campaign, as the two answers he got were not convincing, as the two accounts and in his words were in the introduction to the book, “one of them communicated the origin of the Kurds and their origin – With a turbulent narration and a weak chain of narrators - to "Kurd bin Amr Al-Qahtani", and the other made the origin of the Kurds descend from the genus of the jinn called (Jasad).
Zaki searched libraries Istanbul and Germany and France He visited many museums during his solitary search for history Kurds In addition to those manuscripts, it was based on a study by Russia By orientalist Vladimir Minorsky on the Kurds, in addition to information from Sidney Smith, director of the Iraqi Antiquities House at the time.
After years of study, the historian reached his own theory about the origin of the Kurds, which is that the Kurdish people consist of two classes of peoples, the first class that inhabited Kurdistan Since the dawn of history, "Muhammad Amin Zaki" calls it peoples Zagros Mountains" which, according to the aforementioned historian, are the peoples of "Lulu, Koti, Korti, Gotti, Judy, Kasai Supari, Khalidi, Mitani, Hori, Nairi" It is the very ancient origin of the Kurdish people and the second class: it is the class of peoples Indo-European that immigrated to Kurdistan In the tenth century BC, Kurdistan was settled with their indigenous peoples the Medes And the Kardukians, and mixed with its indigenous peoples to form together the Kurdish nation.