PODCAST 1-23-2018: The Kurds Part 1

With Turkey going to war against the YPG this seemed like as good a time as any to start a series on the Kurds. Here we go way back to the ancient Middle East to trace their origins and talk about several Kurdish dynasties that have had a role, if often minor, in Islamic history. We end in the middle of the 19th century on the cusp of the very first Kur…