Let Them Not Return
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Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

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Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

About this book

The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally, "sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.

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Table of contents

  1. Let Them Not Return
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?
  7. Chapter 2 Sayfo Genocide
  8. Chapter 3 The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
  9. Chapter 4 Mor Dionysios ‘Abd an-Nur Aslan
  10. Chapter 5 Syriac Orthodox Leadership in the Post-Genocide Period (1918-26) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey
  11. Chapter 6 Sayfo, Firman, Qafle
  12. Chapter 7 A Historical Note of October 1915 Written in Dayro d-Zafaran (Deyrulzafaran)
  13. Chapter 8 Interpretation of the ‘Sayfo’ in Gallo Shabo’s Poem
  14. Chapter 9 The Psychological Legacy of the Sayfo
  15. Chapter 10 Sayfo and Denialism
  16. Chapter 11 Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide
  17. Chapter 12 Who Killed Whom?
  18. Index