Article: The concept of Kurdish city.

Studies of Islamic/Iranian cities have paid little attention to the concept of Kurdish cities. Most Iranian literature related to the traditional built environment has focused on the human settlements of the Iranian plateau, especially cities located in the center of the plateau and its surrounding area on the slopes of mountain ranges in the hot-arid zone (Lockhart 1939; English 1966; Bonine 1979; Tavassoli 1982; Kiani 1986; Kiani 1987; Kheirabadi 1991; Habibi 1996). Few scholars have studied the Iranian cities in the mountain area of the Zagros in the west (Clark and Clark 1969); fewer still have studied the Kurdish cities located in the province of Kurdistan (Vasilyeva ...

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