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[29] [30] [31] The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] 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 .
On August 14, 2007, the Yazidis in Iraq were victims of the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings in Sinjar, which killed 796 people. [9] On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Yazidis and abducting another 6,000 to 7,000 Yazidis women and ...
Yazidism, [a] also known as Sharfadin, [b] is a monotheistic ethnic religion [c] which has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
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 ...
The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. [1] However, events since the end of the 20th century have resulted in considerable demographic shifts in these areas as well as mass ...
Yazidis also speak of death and reincarnation as "changing one's shirt" ('Kirasguhartin'). Şahsiwar/Şêx Suwar ("Lord of Horsemen"; Xudan of war and horsemanship). Has a shrine in Beban village. Şêx Mihemed. He had a wife named Sitt Hebîbe. Fought against "the great Sheikh" at Bashiqa. Buried near the monastery of Mar Gûrgîs in the Mosul ...
Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved ...
The Yazidis speak of 74 genocides of them in their history and call these genocides "Farman". The number of 72 Farman can be derived from the oral traditions and folk songs of the Yazidis. [64] [65] The last Farman is number 74 and denotes the genocide of the Yazidis by the IS terrorists. [66] [12] [13] [67]