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Amin Farhan Jejo, Yazidi politician and author; Ibrahim Khalil, The Yazidi folk singer and songwriter; Aslan Usoyan, Russian mafia boss; Al-Hasan ibn Adi, religious heir of ‘Adī ibn Sakhr; Amirkhan Mori, owner and chairman of the Regions Group; Aziz Tamoyan,was the president of the Yezidi National Union
Yazidi shrine of Mame Reshan, partially destroyed by ISIL, in the Sinjar Mountains. Yazidis believe in one God, to whom they refer as Xwedê, Xwedawend, Êzdan, and Pedsha ('King'), and, less commonly, Ellah and Heq. [2] [8] [9] [5] [15] According to some Yazidi hymns (known as Qewls), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.
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]
In 2014, IS took over much of northern Iraq and persecuted religious and ethnic minorities. But they saved a particular brand of cruelty for the Yazidi people whose religion they despised.
Pîrê Ewra, Xudan of the Clouds, Yazidis venerate the clouds as the source of rain and snow in winter. Some Yazidis fast for one day in his honour. [16] Pîr Dawud, a loyal servant of Sheikh Adi Pîr Şeref, a descendant of Dawûd; Pîrê Terjiman, Sheikh Adi's Arabic to Kurdish translator (since Sheikh Adi was born in Lebanon)
Now 18, the Yazidi girl was abducted from her village of Kocho, 15 miles south of Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014, Ali told CBS News. She was one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls believed to have ...
The estimated 400,000-strong Yazidi community in Iraq is a Kurdish minority whose faith combines elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty ...
There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group. [34] [35] Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is monotheistic in nature, having roots in a pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. [36] [37] [38 ...