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Yazidi chief in Bashiqa, Iraq - picture by Albert Kahn (1910s) The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or, in some areas, Dasinî, although the latter, strictly speaking, is a tribal name. Some western scholars derive the name from the Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah (Yazid I). [50]
Yazidism, [a] also known as Sharfadin, [b] is a monotheistic ethnic religion [c] that originated in Kurdistan [citation needed] and has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
The Yazidids (Arabic: بنو يزيد, romanized: Bānū Yāzīd) or Mazyadids (after their ancestor Mazyad al-Shaybani) or Shaybanids (after Banu Shayban), were an Arab family what came to rule over the region of Shirvan (in Azerbaijan) in the mid 9th century.
Tawûsî Melek depicted as a peacock inside the display case on the grave of a Yazidi believer, cemetery of the Yazidi community in Hannover. Quba Mere Diwane is the largest temple of the Yazidis in the world, located in the Armenian village of Aknalich. The temple is dedicated to Melek Taûs and the Seven Angels of Yazidi theology.
Yazidi tradition also claimed that Ezdina Mir had met Sheikh Adi when he first went to Lalish. [35] [36] The Yazidi Black Book and the Yazidi Book of Revelation were attributed to Sheikh Adi. [37] [38] [39] Sheikh Mand, the son of Fakhruddin, also emerged as the ruler of the Yazidi-Ayyubid Emirate of Kilis, and an Ayyubid military commander
It contains the Yazidi account of the creation of the world, the origin of man, the story of Adam and Eve and the major prohibitions of the faith. [50] According to The Cambridge History of the Kurds, "the first proper 'text '" written in Kurdish is a short Christian prayer.
The Kurdistan newspaper established in 1898, prior to latinization, was written in the Kurmanji dialect using Arabic script.. Kurdish is written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 and popularized through the Hawar magazine, and the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet.
The satellite channel of Lalish TV broadcast in Kurdish from Moscow and is bankrolled by the Yazidi businessman Mirza Sloyan. [5] It was launched in April 2016 and is located in the shopping mall Shengal , which takes its name from a place Yazidi live in Iraq.