Iranian Identity & Origins
- پروفسور گارنیک آساطوریان (Professor Garnik Asatrian): نگاهی به مسئلۀ «زبان و قومیت» در ایران (An Examination of the issue of “Language and Ethnicity” in Iran)
- An Analysis of the History of Iran (Part One): The Origins of Iran– پیدایش ایران. (pdf) (in Persian)
- Professor Rudi Matthee’s notes on Persian Language and Culture
Articles by Professor Ahmad Ashraf
- Iranian Identity-Perspectives
- Iranian Identity in the Pre-Islamic era
- Iranian Identity in Medieval Islamic era
- Iranian Identity in the 19th and 20th centuries
- –احمد اشرف-هويت ايراني به سه روايت-Introduction section of a textbook by Dr. Ahmad Ashraf entitled “Iranian Identity in three Descriptions/definitions”
Genetic Studies
Collective Studies on entire Iranian Population
- BBC Persian: -‘اکثر ایرانیان، نژاد آریایی ندارند’-Majority of Iranians do not have “Aryan” genes – Criticism of study – see also criticism in Amordad Magazine and response by Dr. Maziar Ashrafian-Bonab in BBC Persian entitled[توضیح در مورد نتایج یک تحقیق پیرامون نژاد ایرانیان] An explanation regarding conlusions of a study on the Iranian race
- Cambridge University Study: –محقق ايراني دانشگاه«كمبريج»: تمام اقوام غيرفارسي‌زبان ايران ريشه ايراني دارند -Iranian Persian and non-Persian speakers have common genetic origins
- –همه مردم فلات ايران، از يك ريشها-Dr. Maziar Ashrafian’s study on the Common Genetic Origin of the People of Iran
Kurds and Iranian Azarbaijanis
- Farjadian S, Ghaderi A. (2007). HLA class II similarities in Iranian Kurds and Azeris.The International journal of immunogenetics, 34(6), pp.457-463.
- L Andonian, S Rezaie, A Margaryan, DD Farhud, K Mohammad, K Holakouie Naieni1, MR Khorramizadeh6, M H Sanati, M Jamali8, P Bayatian, L Yepiskoposyan (2011). Iranian Azeri’s Y-Chromosomal Diversity in the Context of Turkish-Speaking Populations of the Middle East (pdf). Iranian J Publ Health, Vol. 40, No.1, pp.119-123.
- L Andonian, S Rezaie, A Margaryan3, DD Farhud4, K Mohammad1, K Holakouie Naieni1,MR Khorramizadeh, M H Sanati, M Jamali8, P Bayatian1, L Yepiskoposyan (2011). Iranian Azeri’s Y-Chromosomal Diversity in the Context of Turkish-Speaking Populations of the Middle East. Iranian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 40, No.1, 2011, pp.119-127. (pdf)
Parsees and Zoroastrians
- Farjadian S. Moqadam, F,A., & Ghaderi A. (2006). HLA class II gene polymorphism in Parsees and Zoroastrians of Iran. International journal of immunogenetics, 33(3), pp. 185-191.
Iranian Arabs and Iranian Jews
- Farjadian S. & Ghaderi A. (2007). HLA class II genetic diversity in Arabs and Jews of Iran. International journal of immunogenetics, 34(6), pp.457-463.
Iran’s Indo-European Heritage
- Jahanshah Derakhshani-جهانشاه درخشانی-: The Aryans as described by Near Eastern sources in the 2nd and 3rd Millemium BC -in Persian- (pdf) – see also Derakhshani’s “Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan: Evidence from the 4th and 3rd Millenium B.C.”, Iran & the Caucasus, 2001, vol. V, pp. 7-26.
Northern Iran (Gilan, Mazandaran & Gorgan)
- –مازندراني‌ها در 5 هزار سال قبل مرداني قوي هيکل و سوارکاراني ماهر بودند-Mazandaranis of 5000 years ago were excellent horsemen endowed with powerful statures
- Wolfgang Felix: The Deylamites during the pre-Islamic Era
- The Deylamites (Dailamites) of Northern Persia
- شهربَراز- دیلمیان (Shahrbaraz Blog: The Dailamites – in Persian)
Delineation of the Historical Iranian People and State
- Azargoshnasp: قوم ایرانی چیست؟– Who are the People of Iran (in Persian)
- Manda Zand Ervin (Hudson Institute , New York, June 7, 2011 ): Exonerating the Iranian People
- Fars-News Agency: Political Geography of the Iranian people-جغرافیای سیاسی اقوام ایرانی–
Zoroastrian, Jewish, Armenian, Russian and Greek communities of Iran
[More updates in section from 2020]Recommended Books
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See also “The Iranic Scythians, Alans and Sarmatians” and “The Ossetians” in Arthurian and European Culture and Ancient Iran (Eire-An)
Kurdish Identity
- Asatrian, G. (2009). Prolegomena to the study of the Kurds. Iran and the Caucasus, 13, pp. 1-58. (pdf)
- –كرد یا كردها-احسان هوشمند– (pdf)[Kurd or Kurds – article by Kurdish researcher Ehsan Hooshmand]
- Kurdish Heritage Reclaimed – in Smithsonian Magazine (June 2010 edition)
- –،شرف خان ابن شمس الدین بدلیسی–شرفنامه-Sharafname by Prince Sharaf Khan Ibn Shams e Din Betlisi
- Images of Iranian Kurdistan
Kurds and Pre-Islamic Era
Articles by Hamma Mirwaisi
- Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation
- Iran and Iranian: Queen Vashti the Kurdish girl from Median Empire
- Baloch & Kurdish people in Iran are the foundations for the Airyanem (Iranian) nation Union
- Kurdistan will be the second home for Jews after Israel – see article by Jerusalem Post regarding Hamma Mirwaisi
Kurds and Dailamities
- The Dailamites of Northern Persia
- An overview of the Dailamites – by the Shahrbaraz Blog (in Persian)
Kurdish Tribes
- The Kurdish Tribes
- The Hamavand Tribe
- The Milan Tribe
- The Lalesh Temple and Ceremonies of the Yezidi Kurds
- Yezidis are originally Iranians who refused to be influenced by Zarathustra
- Photo portraits of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds
Linguistics
- Linguistic Similarities between Old Persian, Hawraman, Sorani Kurdish and Old Persian
- Paul, Ludwig, The Position of Zazaki among West Iranian Languages, University of Hamburg, pp. 163-177, 1988 (pdf).
Genetic Studies
Kurdish Music
- The Kamkaran
- Greek and Iranic (Perso-Kurdish) musical Tradition: Musical piece by Ardeshir Kamkar, Mathaios Tsahouridis and Hussein Zahawi of the classical Sassanian (now Kurdish and Persian style) with Greco-Byzantine style . They produced a CD album called “From Pontos to Persia” – “Απο τον Πόντο στην Περσία” released in 2003.
- Kuwat Music Site
Mythology, Nowruz in Kurdistan and Kurdish Folklore
