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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 ...
The Adawiyya existed in the Kurdish mountains before the 12th century, when Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1072–1078), [12] a Sufi of Umayyad descent and venerated by Yazidis to this day, [13] [4] settled there and attracted a following among the adherents of the movement. The name Yazidi seems to have been applied to the group because of his ...
After some Kurdish tribes became Islamized in the 10th century, they joined in the persecution of Yazidis in the Hakkari mountains. [3] [12] Due to their religion, Muslim Kurds persecuted and attacked the Yazidis with particular brutality. [3] [2] [12] [13] Sometimes, during these massacres, Muslim Kurds tried to force the Yazidis to convert to ...
Kurdish tribes in Armenia and Georgia consist of Yazidis who arrived in Caucasus from the regions of Van, Kars and Dogubayazit during two main waves of migrations, the first wave taking place during the Russo-Ottoman wars of 19th century (1828–1829 and 1879–1882) and the second wave taking place during World War 1, especially during and after the Armenian genocide where Yazidis were also ...
Kurdish officials and Yazidi refugees stated that thousands of young, elderly, and disabled individuals on the mountain were still vulnerable, with the governor of Kurdistan's Dahuk province, Farhad Atruchi, saying that the assessment was "not correct" and that although people were suffering, "the international community is not moving".
In addition, he writes that his people are Yazidi Kurds. He indicates his nationality as Kurdish, but specifies that they are Yazidi by religion: "I am happy on behalf of 3,000 Families of Yezidi-Kurds, who 60 years ago, led by my Grandfather Temur Agha, left Turkey and sought refuge in Russia[.] I would like to express my gratitude and wish ...
Adawiyya was led by Arabs, but the vast majority of Adawis were Kurmanji Kurds, with small minorities of Arabs, Turks, and Persians. The Kurds dominated Adawiyya and the other ethnicities assimilated over time. By the time that Adawiyya became Yazidism and stopped accepting religious converts, virtually all Adawis were Kurdish.
Dasini (Arabic: الداسنية al-Dāsinīyya; Kurdish: داسنی Dasnî) or Daseni, Tasini, Dasiki, is a Kurdish Yazidi tribe [1] and ethnonym of Yazidis. The tribe resided near Mosul, Duhok, Sheikhan, Sinjar and all the way to the west bank of Greater Zab river.