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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.
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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
Out of 1,470 people in Kocho at the time, 1,027 were abducted by the IS, 368 were killed and only 75 managed to escape, according to a report by the Middle East Center at the London School of ...
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 ...
But as of April 2024, only 43% of the more than 300,000 people displaced from Sinjar had returned, according to the International Migration Organization. Some fear that if Yazidis don’t return ...
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 ...