Towards a history of the Kurdish Bedirhani family in Ottoman and post-imperial contexts: narrative continuities and discontinuities

贝迪哈尼家族是奥斯曼帝国晚期安纳托利亚东部的一个重要的库尔德家族。1847年，贝迪汗·贝伊（Bedirhan Bey）在与奥斯曼帝国的战争中失利，他的后代在新兴的库尔德民族运动中发挥了重要作用。由于对贝迪汗家族的兴趣主要局限于上述两个方面，研究仍然存在偏见和碎片。例如，1847年后，一些家庭成员在奥斯曼帝国官僚机构中担任高级职位，这一事实没有得到注意。通过调查自我文件、档案来源和其他相关材料，该项目力求将那些没有在库尔德民族运动中发挥作用的家庭成员也包括在内，并考虑到他们生活世界和意识形态的多样性。贝迪哈尼家族历史的个案研究。因此，1850年至1930年将为从奥斯曼帝国背景到后奥斯曼帝国国家参考系统的过渡时期提供新的视角。 伴随着奥斯曼帝国的结束和新的后帝国现实的出现，转型，连续性和不连续性的过程将通过观察家族历史的叙述以及家族成员运作的网络结构来追踪。

The Bedirhanis were an important Kurdish notable family in late Ottoman eastern Anatolia. They are known in particular for the losing battle their eponymos Bedirhan Bey fought against the Ottoman state in 1847 and the leading role a number of his descendants played in the emerging Kurdish national movement.With the interest in the Bedirhani family being largely been restricted to the two aspects mentioned above, research has remained biased and fragmentary. No note has for instance been taken of the fact that a number of family members held high-ranking positions in the Ottoman imperial bureaucracy after 1847. By investigating ego-documents, archival sources and other relevant material, this project seeks to include also those family members that did not play a role in the Kurdish national movement and take the variety of their life-worlds and ideological formations into account. The case study of the Bedirhani family history from ca. 1850 to 1930 will thus cast new light on a period of transition from the imperial Ottoman context to post-Ottoman, national reference systems. Processes of transformation, continuities, and discontinuities that accompanied the end of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of new, post-imperial realities will be traced by looking at narratives of the family history as well as network structures members of the family operated in.