Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Appendices -- A Note on the Transliteration and Translation System Used -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Glossary of Kurdish and Arabic Terms -- Preface -- Foreward -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. The Construction of Kurdish National Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Nation versus National Identity -- National Identity of Young Urban Kurds -- Why Study Kurdish National Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan? -- The Background of the Iraqi Kurds -- Religion in Kurdistan -- The Economy of Post-1991 Kurdistan -- Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- 2. Nationalism, Nation, State. Nation State and Stateless Nation -- Nation, State, Nation State and Stateless Nation -- What is National Identity? Meanings and Character -- Political Culture -- 3. Approaches to the Study of Nationalism and National Identity -- Language, Imagination and Imagined Communities -- The Civic-Ethnic Dichotomy -- Ethno-Symbolism and the Dimensions of Ethnic Community -- Smith's Conception of Ethnicity, Nation, Nationalism, National Identity and Political Culture -- Applying Smith's Dimensions of Ethnic Community to Kurdistan -- 4. Making Sense of Kurdish History -- Territory, Ancient History and Proto-National Identiry -- Kurds and Kurdistan in the Pre-Modern Era -- On Kurdish Language and National Identity -- The Kurds and Kurdistan from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- Kurdish Proto-National Identity and the Rise of the 'Imagined Community' -- 5. The Historical and Socio-Political Conditions for the Development of Kurdish Nationalism: 1921-91 -- Losing the Game of State Formation -- Rebellion in Kurdistan -- The Meeting of Tribalism and Nationalism: 1930s-58 -- Political Developments in Iraq and Kurdistan -- The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the Republican Era: 1958-68.

Kurdish Nationalist Mobilization in the Ba'th Era: 1968-90 -- The Agreement of 11 March 1970 -- The Algiers Agreement: 1974-5 and the Kurdish Revolution -- Internal Displacement -- Militant Kurdish Nationalism: 1976-90 -- 6. Reconstructing and Consolidating National Identity: 1991-2008 -- The 19 May 1992 General Elections and the 1992-8 Power-Sharing System -- Political Power Structures, Power-Sharing and Kurdish National Identity: 1998-2008 -- The Notion of Kurdistanism (Kurdistaniyeti) as a New Form of Asserting National Identity: 1998-2008 -- Part Two -- 7. Nationalism and National Identity Amongst University Students -- Why University Students? -- The Method -- Respondent Demographics Gender Distribution -- Family Profiles: Parents' Occupations and Educational Level Fathers' Occupations -- Family Decision-Making -- Freedom to Talk to Prents about Personal or Family Issues -- Discussion -- 8. Toward an Understanding of Modern Kurdish Nationalsim and National Identity -- Kudistani and Iraqi National Identification -- Attitudes, Pride, Attachment and Loyalty toward Kurdistan and Iraq -- Pride as a Kurdistani versus Iraqi -- Pride or Hostility toward the Kurdistani National Flag and the Iraqi National Flag -- Attitudes, Pride, Attachment and Loyalty toward Tribe, Area of Origin, Language and Religion -- Attachment and Loyalty to Respondents' Local Areas -- Attachment and Loyalty to Kurdish, Arabic and English Languages -- Attitudes, Pride, Attachment and Loyalty toward Kurdish Politics -- 9. Post - 1990s Kurdistaniyeti -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Literature in Kurdish and Arabic -- Literature in English -- Reports and Theses -- Index.