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En Route, A Perpetual Need for New Origins: A Three-Book Cycle

Year 2025, , 206 - 213, 21.03.2025
https://doi.org/10.21600/ijoks.1611717

Abstract

Having written two books in the main focusing on the Kurdish poet and author of modernistic narrative, namely Salīm Barakāt, the present writer just submitted a third book on relevant scripture, that is on the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān, and Mazdaism. The tentative title of the third book is The Tradition of the First Temple. The link between each book has nowhere been explained. And nor is there anywhere an explanation as to why these books follow one and other. The following brief paper attempts just that, as well as trying to explain our overall human attraction to a violent Middle Eastern civilization, and the writer’s own inability to detach her existence from Jacob, known as “Israel” and meaning something like ‘he who is a leader towards a righteous existence and defense of UrShalem the City of Peace.’

References

  • Barakat, Salim (trans. Aviva Butt, 2024). Sages of Darkness (novel). New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford: Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas, Vol 18, Peter Lang Group, AG: 252 pp. (available as E-Book)
  • Boyce, Mary (2001), Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Taylor and Francis Ltd. (2nd rev. ed., imprint Routledge).
  • Butt, Aviva (2021). Part II. Anthology in Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and the Kurdish and Palestinian Similitude: Qamishli Extended. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 270 pp. (From May 2023, available as paperback).
  • Butt, Aviva (2024). Tentative title: The Tradition of the First Temple: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York USA. Hamarash, Soran (2022). The Lost and Untold History of the Kurds: Rediscovering the Beginning of the Western Civilisation and Origin of the Indo-European Languages ca. 10000 BC-1300 CE. (Slemany, 1st Edition): 277.
  • Sonyel, Salâhi R. (2024) “The Fifth Centenary of The First Jewish Migrations to The Ottoman Empire” In: Türk Tarih Kurumu. 2024. Diğer Dergiler: Belgeler • Höyük. https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2217/eng DOI: 10.37879/belleten.1992.207. https.//www.ttk.gov.tr

En Route, A Perpetual Need for New Origins: A Three-Book Cycle

Year 2025, , 206 - 213, 21.03.2025
https://doi.org/10.21600/ijoks.1611717

Abstract

Having written two books in the main focusing on the Kurdish poet and author of modernistic narrative, namely Salīm Barakāt, the present writer just submitted a third book on relevant scripture, that is on the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān, and Mazdaism. The tentative title of the third book is The Tradition of the First Temple. The link between each book has nowhere been explained. And nor is there anywhere an explanation as to why these books follow one and other. The following brief paper attempts just that, as well as trying to explain our overall human attraction to a violent Middle Eastern civilization, and the writer’s own inability to detach her existence from Jacob, known as “Israel” and meaning something like ‘he who is a leader towards a righteous existence and defense of UrShalem the City of Peace.’

References

  • Barakat, Salim (trans. Aviva Butt, 2024). Sages of Darkness (novel). New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford: Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas, Vol 18, Peter Lang Group, AG: 252 pp. (available as E-Book)
  • Boyce, Mary (2001), Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Taylor and Francis Ltd. (2nd rev. ed., imprint Routledge).
  • Butt, Aviva (2021). Part II. Anthology in Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and the Kurdish and Palestinian Similitude: Qamishli Extended. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 270 pp. (From May 2023, available as paperback).
  • Butt, Aviva (2024). Tentative title: The Tradition of the First Temple: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York USA. Hamarash, Soran (2022). The Lost and Untold History of the Kurds: Rediscovering the Beginning of the Western Civilisation and Origin of the Indo-European Languages ca. 10000 BC-1300 CE. (Slemany, 1st Edition): 277.
  • Sonyel, Salâhi R. (2024) “The Fifth Centenary of The First Jewish Migrations to The Ottoman Empire” In: Türk Tarih Kurumu. 2024. Diğer Dergiler: Belgeler • Höyük. https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2217/eng DOI: 10.37879/belleten.1992.207. https.//www.ttk.gov.tr
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Primary Language English
Subjects Kurdish Language, Literature and Culture
Journal Section Makaleler
Authors

Aviva Butt 0000-0002-0941-9479

Early Pub Date March 22, 2025
Publication Date March 21, 2025
Submission Date January 3, 2025
Acceptance Date March 5, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025

Cite

APA Butt, A. (2025). En Route, A Perpetual Need for New Origins: A Three-Book Cycle. International Journal of Kurdish Studies, 11(1), 206-213. https://doi.org/10.21600/ijoks.1611717


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