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[d] Its followers, called Yazidis, are a Kurdish-speaking community. [e] Yazidism includes elements of ancient Iranian religions, as well as elements of Judaism, Church of the East, and Islam. [4] Yazidism is based on belief in one God who created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Beings, known as Angels.
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 ...
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]
In 1324, Abu Firas Ubaydullah ibn Shibl noted that Yazidism emerged as a religion independent from Islam, and claimed that Adawiyya had been reincorporated in Yazidism, stating that the newer Yazidis had adopted the beliefs of the older "ignorant Adawi Yazidis", who were "misled by Satan who whispered to them that they must love Yazid, to such ...
Sultan Êzîd (or sometimes Êzî or Siltan Êzîd) is a divine figure in the Yazidi religion. [1] Although many scholars consider his name to be derived from that of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I, Yazidis consider him to be a separate figure unconnected to the historical Yazid I. [2] Yazidis typically consider him to be part of a triad of divine emanations of God (which are, in order ...
God in Yazidism created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Beings, known as Angels. [42] [170] [43] The Yazidis believe in a divine Triad. [42] [43] [171] The original, hidden God of the Yazidis is considered to be remote and inactive in relation to his creation, except to contain and bind it together within his essence. [42]
Yazidi leaders meet the Chaldean patriarch Audishu V Khayyath in Mosul, c.1895. The Yazidis are a group [17] in Iraq who number just over 650,000. Yazidism, or Sherfedin, dates back to pre-Islamic times. [9] Mosul is the principal holy site of the Yazidi faith. [9] The holiest Yazid shrine is that of Sheikh Adi located at the necropolis of ...
Many Yazidi tribes and lineages are named after Yazidi holy figures and there are many temples and shrines built in their honor. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Holy figures in Yazidism are designated by various special terms including Babçak , [ 2 ] Xudan (lord, master, owner, holder, proprietor, protector, deity), Xas (selected, notable, special, elite) and ...