Yezidi leaders occupied important positions within the provincial Ottoman system and were appointed as governors as far as Tikrit and Kerek. Yezidis were also participants in commerce and river transportation of their territory through contact with other ethnicities and religions.

Furthermore, on 23 March 2017, the regional devolved Scottish Parliament adopted a motion stating: '[The Scottish Parliament] recognises and condemns the genocide perpetrated against the Yezidi people by Daesh [IS]; acknowledges the great human suffering and loss that have been inflicted by bigotry, brutality and religious intolerance, [and ...

4 天之前 · Yazīdī, member of a Kurdish religious minority found primarily in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, the Caucasus region, and parts of Iran.The Yazīdī religion includes elements of ancient Iranian religions as well as elements of Judaism, Nestorian Christianity, and Islam.Although scattered and probably numbering only between 200,000 and …

The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968. Rodziewicz, Artur (December 2016). Asatrian, Garnik S. (ed.). "And the Pearl Became an Egg: The Yezidi Red ...

2024年3月13日 · Almost ten years ago, ISIS seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria and launched a genocidal campaign against the Yazidis in northern Iraq. An ancient religious minority, the Yazidis have for ...

2024年2月24日 · Celebrating the Yezidi (Ezidi) New Year on 18 April 2017, the evening before the start of the new year, by Levi Clancy, Source: Wikimedia Commons Wednesdays and Fridays are the Yazidi holy days and they light sacred lamps at …

The Yezidi People. They are mostly a poor and oppressed people, but they have a rich spiritual tradition that they contend is the world’s oldest. They were the first people to be created in the Garden of Eden, which they claim is a large area centered in what is now known as Lalish in Iraq.

2014年8月11日 · With the advance of Sunni militants into Iraqi Kurdish territory, members of the Yazidi religious minority have fled their homeland of Sinjar. As thousands struggle to survive in the mountains and ...

The most well-documented and widely-oppressed peoples in modern Iraqi Kurdistan are the Yazidi (also spelled Yezidi). Kurdish followers of the Yazidi religion have been called “devil-worshipers,” but are a widely misunderstood people.

2014年8月7日 · Yazidis pray to Malak Taus five times a day. His other name is Shaytan, which is Arabic for devil, and this has led to the Yazidis being mislabelled as "devil-worshippers". The Yazidis believe ...