Hakkari

by Sinclair, Thomas A.

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Hakkari is the name of a Kurdish tribal agglomeration as well as the current name of a mountainous region in the southeast corner of Turkey. The Hakkari are known in northern Iraq, in a foothill district centred on ʿAmadīya and ʿAqra, east of Mosul, in the sixth to seventh/twelfth to thirteenth centuries; the Turkish princes of Mosul (Zankī/Zengi, Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ (r. 631–57/1234–59), etc.) made frequent attempts to acquire their castles. By the mid-eighth/fourteenth century, the Hakkari had …

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Hakkari is the name of a Kurdish tribal agglomeration as well as the current name of a mountainous region in the southeast corner of Turkey. The Hakkari are known in northern Iraq, in a foothill district centred on ʿAmadīya and ʿAqra, east of Mosul, in the sixth to seventh/twelfth to thirteenth centuries; the Turkish princes of Mosul (Zankī/Zengi, Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ (r. 631–57/1234–59), etc.) made frequent attempts to acquire their castles. By the mid-eighth/fourteenth century, the Hakkari had migrated to the present

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2242

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eng Islam

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Sinclair, Thomas A.

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