Abstract
THE STUDIES OF MISSIONARIES’ KURDISH BIBLE AND ITS EFFETCS ON KURDISH NATIONALISM
The effect of missionary activities on societies, which have been maintained for centuries in the Middle East has continued not only politically and religiously but also culturally. Missionaries initially focused on regional Christian groups whom they see close to themselves, but in progressing times they were interested in Kurds in the region. Since they could speak Kurdish in order to communicate with regional groups like Armenians and Assyrians, they prepared a grammar book to edit a Kurdish Bible. Soon, these grammar studies became the basic to themselves for their works with Kurds. However, this Kurdish grammar studies prepared in Latin letters were accepted in following times by Kurds and these works made up the cultural basic for present day Latin alphabet and therefore the Kurdish nationalism.
Keywords
Missionary, Kurds, Bible, Grammar, Nationalism
