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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]
The name Yazidi seems to have been applied to the group because of his Umayyad origins. [12] In Yazidi religious lore, there is no trace of any link between Sultan Ezid and the second Umayyad caliph. [14] Some scholars have derived the name Yazidi from word yazata, the name for a divine being in Old Iranian. [4] [1]
The non-Muslim minorities, especially the Yazidis, were largely prohibited from participating in state institutions, even though the Yazidis were regarded by the League of Nations as a minority like the Jews and Christians, which ensured their rights in Iraq.
The Yazidis are monotheists who believe in Melek Taus, a benevolent angel who appears as a peacock. [22] The self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) and some other Muslims in the region view the peacock angel as the malevolent creature Lucifer or Shaitan and they consider the Yazidis 'devil worshippers'.
Sinjar town’s main Sunni Muslim district remains a stretch of rubble; the occupants have not returned, facing hostility from their former Yazidi neighbors who view them as IS collaborators.
The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group ...
Yazidi tradition also claimed that Ezdina Mir had met Sheikh Adi when he first went to Lalish. [49] [50] Sheikh Mand, the son of Fakhruddin, also emerged as the ruler of the Yazidi-Ayyubid Emirate of Kilis, and an Ayyubid military commander. His sister, Khatuna Fekhra, was also revered as an important Yazidi female saint. [51] [52] [53]
The massacre of Yazidi men and exploitation as sex slaves of Yazidi women is one such example. ... The report defines the woman's role as "building the Ummah (a community of Muslims), producing ...