Editing Kurds (section)

===Christianity===
{{Main|Kurdish Christians|Bible translations into Kurdish|Christianity}}
Although historically there have been various accounts of [[Kurdish Christians]], most often these were in the form of individuals, and not as communities. However, in the 19th and 20th century various travel logs tell of Kurdish Christian tribes, as well as Kurdish Muslim tribes who had substantial Christian populations living amongst them. A significant number of these were allegedly originally [[Armenian people|Armenian]] or [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sykes|first1=M.|year=1908|title=The Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449629|journal=The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|volume=38|pages=451–486|doi=10.2307/2843309|jstor=2843309}}</ref> and it has been recorded that a small number of Christian traditions have been preserved. Several Christian prayers in Kurdish have been found from earlier centuries.<ref>Hervas, L. Saggio. (1787). 'Pratico delle lingue: con prolegomeni, e una raccolta di orazioni dominicali in piu di trecento lingue e dialetti...'. Cesena: Per Gregorio Biasini, pp. 156–157.</ref> In recent years some Kurds from Muslim backgrounds have converted to [[Christianity]].<ref>[http://mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6652:a-muslim-leader-converted-to-christianity-in-iraqi-kurdistan&catid=36:iranian-christians A Muslim Leader Converted to Christianity in Iraqi Kurdistan]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Kurds|url=http://www.urbana.org/_articles.cfm?RecordId=692|access-date=9 March 2016|website=Urbana|archive-date=28 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928040627/http://www.urbana.org/_articles.cfm?RecordId=692|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-islamic-state-christians-idUSKCN1RS19N|title=Christianity grows in Syrian town once besieged by Islamic State|date=16 April 2019|agency=Reuters}}</ref>

Segments of the Bible were first made available in the Kurdish language in 1856 in the Kurmanji dialect. The Gospels were translated by Stepan, an Armenian employee of the [[American Bible Society]] and were published in 1857. Prominent historical Kurdish Christians include the brothers [[Zakaria II Mkhargrdzeli|Zakare]] and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli.<ref>Alexei Lidov, 1991, The mural paintings of Akhtala, p. 14, Nauka Publishers, Central Dept. of Oriental Literature, University of Michigan, {{ISBN|5-02-017569-2}}, {{ISBN|978-5-02-017569-3}}, ''It is clear from the account of these Armenian historians that Ivane's great-grandfather broke away from the Kurdish tribe of Babir''</ref><ref>Vladimir Minorsky, 1953, Studies in Caucasian History, p. 102, CUP Archive, {{ISBN|0-521-05735-3}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-05735-6}}, ''According to a tradition which has every reason to be true, their ancestors were Mesopotamian Kurds of the tribe (xel) Babirakan.''</ref><ref>Richard Barrie Dobson, 2000, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: A-J, p. 107, Editions du Cerf, University of Michigan, {{ISBN|0-227-67931-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-227-67931-9}}, ''under the Christianized Kurdish dynasty of Zak'arids they tried to re-establish nazarar system...''</ref>