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ethnographic research on Yezidis
Euphrates Expedition
Gertrude Bell
Great Peacock
hakkari
Hakkari Mountains
Hasan Aga
Henry Layard
Honourable East India Company
Hormuzd Rassam
Ismail Beg
Jebel Sinjar
Kurdish minority religions
lake
Lake Urmia
mar
Mar Shimun
Middle Eastern ethnography
minority identity politics
Mirza Beg
Mount Aragats
Mountain Nestorians
Percy Badger
religion
religious oral traditions
shimun
Sir Paul Rycaut
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urmia
Yazidi sacred texts
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Yezidi Community
Yezidi Religion
Yezidi studies
Yezidi Village
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138983403
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1993. The Yezidis are a community of around 200,000 Kurds who possess their own religion, quite distinct from Islam, which most other Kurds profess, and from the Christian and Jewish faiths. The Yezidis live in the northern parts of Iraq and Syria, in eastern Turkey, in Germany and in the ex-Soviet republics of Armenia and Georgia. (In Armenia the Yezidis, long classified as Kurds, are now recognized as a separate minority group and the term 'Kurd' is applied only to Moslem Kurds.) This book stems from a conversation with the Yezidi priest of the village who remarked that now the children were learning to read and write they were asking him questions about the Yezidi scriptures and the history of the community. Lacking any written material, he could only repeat to them the oral traditions he had himself learned as a child.
