About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Ahl-e Haqq, Christianity in Kurdistan, Jews and Judaism in Kurdistan, Kurdish Islamic organisations, Yazidi, Armenian-Kurdish relations, Nur Ali Elahi, Ansar al-Islam, Kurdish Jews, Turkish Hezbollah, Kurdistan Islamic Union, Yazdanism, Hajj Nematollah, Kurdish Christians, Stoning of Du'a Khalil Aswad, 2007 Yazidi communities bombings, Asenath Barzani, David Alroy, Sandur, Kurdistan, Lishanid Noshan, Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Yazidis in Armenia, Lishana Deni, Hulaula language, Islamic Group in Kurdistan, Kurdistan List, Islamic Movement of Kurdistan, Islamic Party of Kurdistan, Order of the Peacock Angel, Guram Adzhoyev, Izates bar Monobaz, Betanure Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, Melek Taus, Sultan Sahak, Barzani Kurds, Feleknas Uca, Al-Hasan ibn Adi, Fakhr ad-Din ibn Adi, Burhan al-Haqq, Monobaz II, Sheikh Sharaf ad-Din ibn al-Hasan, 2007 Mosul massacre, Sakhr Abu l-Barakat, List of countries by Yazidi population, Lalish, Hereketa slamiya Kurdistan, Kalam-e Saranjam, Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress, Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq, Sheikh Adi ibn Sakhr, Kahtaniya, Kurd Hamas, Malik Al-Tawus Troop, Khurto Hajji Ismail, Symacho, Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah, Islamic Kurdish League. Excerpt: The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: or Ezidi) are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s - their members emigrating to Europe, especially to Germany. Their religion, Yazidism, is a branch of Yazdanism, and is seen as a highly syncretic complex of local Kurdish beliefs and Islamic Sufi doctrine introduced to the area by Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir in the 12th century. The Yazidi believe in God as...
