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Yazidism Êzdiyatî ئێزدیتی
Pilgrims celebrating the Yazidi new year festival at Lalish, Iraq
Type
Ethnic religion
Classification
Iranian religions[1][2]
Scripture
Yazidi Book of Revelation, Yazidi Black Book
Theology
Monotheistic
Mir
Hazim Tahsin or Naif Dawud[3]
Baba Sheikh
Sheikh Ali Ilyas[4]
Language
Kurmanji (Kurdish)
Headquarters
Lalish
Origin
12th century Kurdistan
Members
c. 1,000,000–1,500,000[5][6]
Other name(s)
Şerfedîn
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Main topics
Yazidis
Yazidi social organization
The Heptad
Tawûsî Melek
Fexredîn
Sheikh Shems
Sicadîn
Melik Şêxsin
Sheikh Obekr
Nasirdîn
List of Yazidi holy figures
Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
Sultan Ezid
Amadin
Ezdina Mir
Khatuna Fekhra
Sheikh Mand
Mehmed Reshan
Musa Sor
Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan
Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
Pir Ali
Rabia of Basra
Shehid ibn Jerr
Holy places
Lalish
Sinjar Mountains
Silat Bridge
Mam Rashan Shrine
Quba Mêrê Dîwanê
Sharfadin Temple
Sultan Ezid Temple
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Batizmi
Feast of Ezid
Feast of the Assembly
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Yazidism,[a] also known as Sharfadin,[b][7][8][9][10] is a monotheistic ethnic religion[11][12][13][14] that originated in Kurdistan[15] and has roots in a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.[16] It is followed by the mainly Kurdish-speaking Yazidis and is based on belief in one God who created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Beings, known as Angels.[7][17][18] Preeminent among these Angels is Tawûsî Melek (also spelled as Melek Taûs), who is the leader of the Angels and who has authority over the world.[7][18][19]
^Allison, Christine (20 September 2016) [20 July 2004]. "YAZIDIS i. GENERAL". Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Columbia University. doi:10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_1252. ISSN 2330-4804. Archived from the original on 17 November 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
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^"Yezidis divided on spiritual leader's successor elect rival Mir".
^"The Yazidis are still struggling to survive". The Economist. 2020-12-10. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
^Lamb, Christina (2020-09-22). Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women. Simon and Schuster. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-5011-9917-2.
^"Aziz Tamoyan blames unknown forces for crippling history and culture of Yazidis". armenpress.am. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
^ abcAsatrian, Garnik S.; Arakelova, Victoria (2014). "Part I: The One God - Malak-Tāwūs: The Leader of the Triad". The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World. Gnostica. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge. pp. 1–28. doi:10.4324/9781315728896. ISBN 978-1-84465-761-2. OCLC 931029996.
^Rodziewicz, Artur (2018). "The Nation of the Sur: The Yezidi Identity Between Modern and Ancient Myth". In Bocheńska, Joanna (ed.). Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 272. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93088-6_7. ISBN 978-0-415-07265-6.
^"مهزارگههێ شهرفهدین هێشتا ژ ئالیێ هێزێن پێشمهرگهی ڤه دهێته پاراستن" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
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^Taneja, Preti (2007). Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's Minority Communities Since 2003. Minority Rights Group International. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-904584-60-5.
^Chapman, Chris; Taneja, Preti (2009). Uncertain Refuge, Dangerous Return: Iraq's Uprooted Minorities. Minority Rights Group International. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-904584-90-2.
^Muscati, Samer; Watch (Organization), Human Rights (2009). On Vulnerable Ground: Violence Against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province's Disputed Territories. Human Rights Watch. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-56432-552-5.
^Sorenson, David (2018-10-03). An Introduction to the Modern Middle East, Student Economy Edition: History, Religion, Political Economy, Politics. Routledge. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-429-96271-4.
^Omarkhali, Khanna; Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (2016). "Yezidism and Yezidi Studies in the early 21st century". Kurdish Studies. 4 (2): 122. doi:10.33182/ks.v4i2.424.
^(1) Turgut, Lokman. Ancient rites and old religions in Kurdistan. OCLC 879288867.
(2) Kaczorowski, Karol (2014). "Yezidism and Proto-Indo-Iranian Religion". Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies (3–4).
(3) Foltz, Richard (2017-06-01). "The "Original" Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the False Conflation of the Yezidi and Zoroastrian Traditions". Journal of Persianate Studies. 10 (1): 87–106. doi:10.1163/18747167-12341309. ISSN 1874-7094.
(4) Omarkhali, Khanna (2009–2010). "The status and role of the Yezidi legends and myths: to the question of comparative analysis of Yezidism, Yārisān (Ahl-e Haqq) and Zoroastrianism: a common substratum?". Folia Orientalia. 45–46: 197–219. OCLC 999248462.
(5) Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (1995). Yezidism--its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-9004-8.
^Açikyildiz, Birgül (2014-12-23). The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9780857720610.
^ abAllison, Christine (25 January 2017). "The Yazidis". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.254. ISBN 9780199340378. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
^Maisel, Sebastian (2016-12-24). Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739177754.
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