{"id":1223,"date":"2020-02-01T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2020-02-01T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:31:04","slug":"asatrian-kurdology-is-highly-politicized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/article\/asatrian-kurdology-is-highly-politicized\/","title":{"rendered":"Asatrian: Kurdology is highly politicized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the preface of the book &#8220;The\nKurds and Their Origins &#8211; The Methodology of Kurdish Studies&#8221;, Garnik Asatrian\nemphasizes the necessity of studying all phenomena, especially in the\nhumanities, based on methodology, and in page 17, referring to the methodology\nof Kurdish Studies, adds: I find writing this preface necessary because, as you\nwill read in the first footnote of this book, Kurdology is one of the most\npoliticized branches of Iranology in which the role of indigenous thinkers is\nvery significant.\n&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The professor of Iranian Studies at\nYerevan State University of Armenia continues that writing in the field of the Kurdology\nhas become so chaotic that it has sometimes even blocked the way to progress in\nthis important field of Iranian Studies, while in other fields of Iranian\nStudies, academic research and exploration and research do not disturb each\nother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author has described the use of\nthe title &#8220;Kurdish nation&#8221; in some unscientific and non-academic\nwriting as one of the consequences of this chaos and believes that the\n&#8220;Iranian nation&#8221; is a correct title for all Iranian ethnics while we\nmust use &#8220;Kurdish ethnic, Fars ethnic, Baluci ethnic &#8230; &#8221; to refer\nthem. 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