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Professor Christine Allison

Publications

Books

with FC Allison, A joisten-Pruschke, A Wendtland, Allison FC,Joisten-Pruschke A,Wendtland A (eds) From Daēnā to Dîn: Religion, Kultur und Sprache in der iranischen Welt. Festschrift für Philip Kreyenbroek zum 60. Geburtstag, Otto Harrassowitz, 2009.

The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan, London, Curzon Press, 2001.

with FC Allison, PG Kreyenbroek, Kurdish Culture and Identity, London, Zed Books, 1996.

Chapters

'The Yezidis', in Hunter ECD (eds) Religious minorities of the Modern Middle East: a Complete Survey of Non-Muslim Communities, , 2012

Memory and the Kurmanji novel: Contemporary Turkey and Soviet Armenia, in Kreyenbroek PG (eds) Remembering the Past in Iranian Societies, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012

"Orality, Literacy and Textual Authority amongst the Yezidis", in Karolewski J,Langer R,Ursinus M (eds) ". Reception Processes of Alevi Ritual Practice Between Innovation and Reconstruction, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012

Kurdish Oral Literature, in Kreyenbroek PG,Marzolph U (eds) Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Baluchi, Ossetic; Persian, Tajik:Companion volume 2: A history of Persian Literature, New York and London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010, 33-69

‘Representations of Yezidism and Zoroastrianism in the Kurdish newspapers Hawar and Roja Nû, in Allison FC,Joisten-Pruschke A,Wendtland A (eds) From Daena to Din: Religion, Kultur und Sprache in der iranischen Welt: Festschrift für Philip Kreyenbroek zum 60. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009, 285-291

‘La poésie populaire chez les Kurdes : vecteur d’histoire, lieu de mémoire’, in Kober M (eds) Poésies du Sud et des Orients, Paris: l'Harmattan, Universite Paris 13, 2008, 181-191 Publisher Website

Kurdish in Iraq, in Postgate JN (eds) The Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern, The British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 135-158

Imagining the Book: Fakery, Fantasy and the Search for Yezidi Scriptures, in Krasnowolska A,Rzepka M (eds) International Conference on Kurdish Studies, Krakow: Krakow, 2004

History and Verbal Art in Kurdish Lyrical Song, in Proceedings of the Conference ‘Popular Literatures of the Middle East, Oxford, 2002

Oral History Methodologies and Islamic Groups, in Sufism in Bulgaria, International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, 2001, 433-443

Folklore and Fantasy; the Presentation of Women in Kurdish Oral Tradition, in Mojab S (eds) , Mazda Press, Costa Mesa, 2001, 181-194

Kurdistan remembered online: the “Kurds’ Family Photo Album” and other Virtual Memories, in Conermann S,Haig G (eds) Die Kurden. Studien zu ihrer Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur. Asien und Afrika: Beiträge des Zentrums für Asiatische une Afrikanische Studien (ZAAS) der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Schenefeld: EB-Verlag, 97-120

Journal articles

"Unbelievable Slowness of Mind": Yezidi Studies, from Nineteenth to Twenty-first Century, Journal of Kurdish Studies, vol. VI, 2008, 1-23

Kurdish Autobiography, Memoir and Novel : Ereb Shemo and his Successors, , 2005, 97-118