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Yazidi Religion Explained

November 14, 2026 · 23 min

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Uploaded 10-09-20

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Bibliography:
Eszter Spät, “The Song of the Commoner: The Gnostic Call in Yezidi Oral Tradition.” In In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism. Ed. J. A. van den Berg and J. van Schaik, 663-683. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Victoria Arakelova, "Book Review of God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect,” in Iran and the Caucasus 11 (2007).

Richard Foltz, “The ‘Original’ Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the False Conflation of the Yezidi and Zoroastrian Traditions,” Journal of Persianate Studies, 10 (2017), 87-106.

Peter Nicolaus, “The Serpent Symbolism in the Yezidi Religious Tradition and the Snake in Yerevan,” Iran and the Caucasus 15 (2011), 49-72.

Sebastian Maisel, “Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority."

Philip Kreyenbroek, "Yezidism Its Background Observances and Textual Tradition."

Photo attributions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda#/media/File:Naqshe_Rostam_Darafsh_Ordibehesht_93_(35).JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Shrines_of_Sheikh_Adi,_Sheikh_Hassan,_and_Sheikh_Bakr_at_the_Yezidi_holy_site_of_Lalish_in_Kurdistan_Region.jpg
Melek Tawus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus#/media/File:Tausi-Malek.png
Lalesh pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lalish_panorama.jpg
Yazidi Temple in Armenia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jezida_templo_en_aknali%C4%89o.jpg



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