By Hirmis Aboona

ISBN-10: 1604975830

ISBN-13: 9781604975833

Many students, within the U.S. and in other places, have decried the racism and "Orientalism" that characterizes a lot Western writing at the heart East. Such writings conflate varied peoples and international locations, and hobbies inside such peoples and countries, into unitary and malevolent hordes, uncivilized reservoirs of risk, whereas ignoring or downplaying analogous developments in the direction of conformity or barbarism in different areas, together with the West. Assyrians particularly be afflicted by previous testomony and dad tradition references to their barbarity and cruelty, which forget about or downplay massacres or torture via the Judeans, Greeks, and Romans who're celebrated via historical past as ancestors of the West. This paintings, via its wealthy depictions of tribal and non secular range inside Mesopotamia, will help function a corrective to this tendency of latest writing at the heart East and the Assyrians particularly. in addition, Aboona's paintings additionally steps clear of the age-old oversimplified rubric of an "Arab Muslim" center East, and into the cultural mosaic that's extra consultant of the sector. during this publication, writer Hirmis Aboona offers compelling study from various fundamental resources in English, Arabic, and Syriac at the historical origins, smooth struggles, and unique tradition of the Assyrian tribes dwelling in northern Mesopotamia, from the plains of Nineveh north and east to southeastern Anatolia and the Lake Urmia area. between different findings, this e-book debunks the tendency of contemporary students to question the continuity of the Assyrian identification to the trendy day via confirming that the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia instructed a number of the earliest English and American viewers to the zone that they descended from the traditional Assyrians and that their church buildings and identification predated the Arab conquest. It info how the Assyrian tribes of the mountain dioceses of the "Nestorian" Church of the East maintained a stunning measure of independence until eventually the Ottoman governor of Mosul approved Kurdish armed forces to assault and subjugate or evict them. Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans is a piece that would be of serious curiosity and use to students of historical past, center japanese stories, diplomacy, and anthropology.