Fadhil Qaradaghi

Islamization of Kurdistan Fadhil Qaradaghi

A critique of a Thesis of Master Degree (Sulaimania University), full of errors and a selective work to show that Muslim conquerors fought Kurds and captured Kurdistan using violence while facts of history state that conflicts happened in a few places in Kurdistan and even in those places we don't know whether it were the Kurds who engaged in the battles or it was the Sassanian (Persian) army. And in a single case were Kurds are mentioned we don't know whether Kurds fought for their own or on behalf of the Sassanian Empire. It is a poor attempt to show that Kurdistan had independent authorities while it hadn't. The Thesis is full of errors. Fact are intentionally selected and many other facts are neglected and other are misinterpreted. Some are mentioned in the book but the source is saying another thing. The Thesis is also full of plagiarism; the researcher mentions sources that he didn't even see and that's why made many errors. The thesis contains a few English sources that the researcher again didn't see but used Arabic sources and just copied the name of the English sources and thus he made funny mistakes in the names of the authors and the titles and in the information they contains. Why all this was done? Because at that time the Department of History in Sulaimania University was controlled by a dean wanted to impose his view on the department and its staff and even its students. This critique was first published (in 2003) in only 300 copies but it echoed like a bomb the academic circles in Kurdistan.