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ISIS has, in their digital magazine Dabiq, explicitly claimed religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women. [224] In December 2014, Amnesty International published a report. [225] [226] Despite the oppression Yazidi women sustained, they appeared on the news as examples of retaliation. They received training and taken positions at the ...
The real core texts of the religion that exist today are the hymns known as qawls; they have also been orally transmitted during most of their history, but are now being collected with the assent of the community, effectively transforming Yazidism into a scriptural religion. [1]
After the Ottomans had given the Yazidis a certain legal status in 1849 through repeated interventions by Stratford Canning and Sir Austen Henry Layard, [35] they sent their Ottoman general Omar Wahbi Pasha (later known as "Ferîq Pasha" in the memory of the Yazidis) [35] in 1890 [36] or 1892 [35] from Mosul to the Yazidis in Shaikhan and again ...
Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district, killing and enslaving thousands from the Yazidi religious minority. As they moved her ...
Qewals are a hereditary group of performers of Yazidi religious hymns who come traditionally from two tribes of Mirîds: Dumilî and Hekarî. However, more recently, there are also some Qewals who are from the Mamûsî tribe. Qewals are the main individuals that are responsible for the preservation and transmission of Yazidi religious texts.
ISIS militants had killed or enslaved Ayman's parents in their purge of the Yazidi religious minority and sold the four-year-old to Umm and Abu Ahmed. Sold by Islamic State, bought by strangers ...
Yazidis believe that Tawûsî Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. [8] [9] [10] They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen nor a disgraced angel, but an emanation of God himself. [8] [9] [10] The Yazidis believe that the founder or reformer of their religion, Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir, was an incarnation of Tawûsî ...
Ibrahim is a member of Iraq’s Yazidi religious community, one of the most persecuted and vulnerable minorities in the world. ... but now it is at its peak,” said Ibrahim, a 32-year-old former ...