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| | Yazidi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Moreover, in astrology, the ox is the symbol of Tishrei. | | | The religion of the Yazidis is a highly syncretic one: Sufi influence and imagery can be seen in their religious vocabulary, especially in the terminology of their esoteric literature, but much of the mythology is non-Islamic, and their cosmogonies apparently have many points in common with those of ancient Iranic religions. | | | Although the Yazidis speak Kurdish, their religion shows strong influence from archaic Levantine and Islamic religions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi
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| | THE YAZIDIS - AN EXTREME-SHIA SECT |
| | Yazidi language, both in worship and in secular life, is the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. | | | Like all Shi'a groups, the Yazidis believe firmly in Taqiya, the dissimulation of their faith in the face of persecution for the sake of the survival of the community. | | | Yazidis believe that the supreme God created the world, but delegated its maintenance to a hierarchy of seven angels of whom Malak Ta'us (the Peacock Angel) was the first in rank. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/az/rescon/mgcyazid.html
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| | Religioscope: Iraq: Yazidis fear renewed persecution |
| | The Yazidis say that they derive their name from a proto-Kurdish name meaning "followers of God" (God is "Yazdan" in Kurdish). | | | The Yazidis claim that their religion dates back at least six millennia, and associate it with the early Persian religion of Mithraism. | | | For many Kurds, the Yazidis are guardians of their ancestral faith. |
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http://religion.info/english/articles/article_31.shtml
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| | Yazidi :: Ancient Faith Is a Reminder of Iraq's Diversity |
| | Yazidis believe that there is one God and that he created seven angels as his instruments in helping to run the universe. | | | What is clear is that the Yazidis borrowed elements of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as the Zoroastrian fire-worship religion of Iran, and wove them into a faith both mysterious and somehow familiar to those who wander into their temples and graveyards, which dot the hillsides of northern Iraq. | | | For centuries, believers in the Yazidi religion in northern Iraq were oppressed by their Ottoman overlords and Muslim Kurdish neighbors and labeled a sect of devil worshipers. |
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http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2656
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| | Yezidism |
| | The chief divine figure of the Yazidi is Malak Taus ('Peacock Angel'), worshipped in the form of a peacock. | | | Shaykh Adi, the chief Yazidi saint, was a 12th century Muslim mystic believed to have achieved divinity through metempsychosis. | | | The seven angels are worshipped by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze or iron peacock figures called sanjaq, the largest of which weighs nearly 700 pounds. |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/yezidism.htm
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| | The Yazidis -- An Angelic Sect |
| | The sect of Yazidi is based on scriptures written in the 12th century by a Sufi mystic Sheikh Adi. | | | Yazidis would not be classified as Muslims except by a long stretch, though they accept Muhammad as one of the avatars of the deity. | | | The word Yezidi also appears as Yazidi and the religion is referred to as Yezidism. |
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http://orvillejenkins.com/peoples/yazidi.html
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| | -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Yazidis are ethnic Kurds whose religion blends elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other faiths, researchers say. | | | Yazidis have a hymn dedicated to Malak Ta'us and often display his peacock image and kiss it as part of their rituals. | | | Yazidis have small communities in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Georgia and Armenia, but the majority of the estimated 100,000 followers of the religion live in Iraq. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/97/story_9705_1.html
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| | E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel |
| | Yazidi legend considers the companions of Shaikh ‘Adi too holy to have married and had children in the ordinary way, indeed, it is claimed that they were incarnations of angels, or descended from such incarnations. | | | One Yazidi propounded to me the curious theory that the accumulated experiences of various earthly lives was, on the Day of Resurrection, gathered into one over-soul, but that the individuals who had once lived those lives continued as separate entities, but how this was possible he did not explain. | | | This feast is the feast of the people, and here there are plenty of people, and Yazidis and Kurds come in from all the hills and neighbouring villages to see the feast and the tawwâfi. |
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http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock.htm
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| | yazidis |
| | The yazidi religion has elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, as well as some paganism. | | | Yazidis pray twice a day towards the sun, making sure there are no non-Yazidis around them, dedicating their prayer to Malik Taus. | | | He is the author of the book Kitab al-Jalwah (The book of the Emergence.) Yazidis generally refuse to discuss their faith, which in any case is known fully by only a few of them. |
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http://www.geocities.com/defender_of_the_truth/yazidis.html
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| | Vying for a Voice, Tribe in N. Iraq Feels Let Down |
| | Tolerant of other religions, they worship the peacock as a symbol of a powerful angel and sunlight as an expression of God. | | | Inside, Mayor Daqhil Qasim Hason, who makes a point of saying he is of the Yazidi faith but is ethnically Kurdish, sat in a maroon leather chair drinking tea with the KDP leader for western Nineveh, Sarbast Omar Hassan Terwanishi. | | | Scrawled behind him on the wall, images of U.S. helicopters and soldiers depicted the arrival of the blue-eyed fighters awaited by the Yazidi, an obscure sect of sun worshipers with roots in Zoroastrianism who have inhabited the valleys of the Sinjar range for centuries. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600717_pf.html
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| | Print Article: In lettuce we do not trust |
| | The Yazidis, who are ethnically Kurds, maintain one of the most eclectic of faiths. | | | A man who teaches the Yazidi equivalent of Sunday school avoids the kind of explanation found in encyclopedias - that the process of fusing a smattering of faiths, including Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam, left the origins of many Yazidi practices obscure. | | | The caliphs of the Ottoman empire carried out many massacres against the Yazidis in the 18th and 19th centuries, he explained, with thousands of them killed in the lettuce fields then dotting north-eastern Iraq. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/01/03/1041566230099.html
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| | Yazidi :: Iraqi group fears revival of 'devil-worship' tag |
| | Their concerns were underlined last week when one of the three Yazidis in parliament tried to challenge the widespread perception among Islamists that they are friends of Satan. | | | He spoke of accusing looks he said were directed at Yazidis whenever ministers began speeches with Koranic verses cursing the devil. | | | Leading Christian Yonadem Kanna said he had personally written into the constitution a section that ensured freedoms for groups like Yazidis not considered "people of the book", a Koranic term referring to the main monotheistic religions. |
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http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12011
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| | E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel, Part 3. |
| | I asked about the Feast of the Dead, mentioned by Lescot, and he told me that it was identical with the Spring Feast. | | | The Baba Shaikh and his son were also present, so that both spiritual and temporal lords of the Yazidis were met under one roof. | | | A Yazidi priest, second in rank to the shaikh. |
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http://www.avesta.org/yezidi/peacock3.htm
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| | Three Dreadful Crimes of Yazid ibn Muawiya Imam Reza (A.S.) Network |
| | The people of Madinah though their property plundered,blood shed and their women raped and molested,all of them gave allegaince "Bayyat" to Yazid except the fourth holy Imam of the Shi'ites Imam Zainul Abedin(A.S.). | | | It is narrated that the Syrian army commander ordered to hit the Holy Kaaba daily with ten thousand stones. | | | After supressing and plundering people of Madinah, Muslim ibn Aqabah started towards Makkah to crush Abdullah ibn Zubair. |
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http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=636
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| | APPENDIX |
| | It concerns the Yazidis, a Kurdish group that, unlike the majority of the Kurds, does not adhere to Islam but constitutes a syncretist sect that worships the Peacock Angel. | | | Fifth: The crumbling of the centers of power and authority among the leaders of the Yazidi sect, as the loyalty of their sons [i.e., members] has a sectarian and ethnic base. | | | During Anfal, Yazidis were singled out for special punishment on the accusation that they, by preferring to continue to live in the "prohibited areas," had chosen to be Kurds and not Arabs. |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/1994/iraq/APPENDIX.htm
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| | Moosavi says Yazidi forces still afraid of Zainab : JAFARIYA NEWS, October 9 News |
| | RAWALPINDI, October 8: Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of the Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan has said that the seerat and character of Hazrat Syeda Zainab binte Ali (S.A.) is the source of guidance for the whole womankind. | | | The Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya, Pakistan, Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi the name of Hazrat Zainab (S.A.) was proposed by the Holy Prophet (SAW) when he took her in his lap saying that she resembles most with Khadija-tul-Kubra (S.A.). | | | He said the Yazidi forces were still afraid of Zainab’s character while the Zainabi spirit is the central force of independence movements the world over including that of Kashmir and Palestine. |
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http://www.jafariyanews.com/oct2k2/9_tnfj.htm
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| | Yazidis |
| | Many Yazidis consider themselves to be ethnically Kurdish, although some would define themselves as both religiously and ethnically distinct from Muslim Kurds. | | | Yazidis are a syncretistic religious group (or a set of several groups). | | | For example, 33 members of the Yazidi community of Mosul, arrested in July 1996, still are unaccounted for. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/religion-yazidi.htm
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| | Dangerous Logic: Local Stuff Archives |
| | The reason this is blogworthy is that no mention was made in the account of that conviction of the other interesting things found when Al Yazidi was arrested. | | | The three were following Yazidi after he had been seen driving slowly by Obad's home and business property, according to police and Obad. | | | Not quite two months ago, a court in LaGrange County (just up the road from the Fort) convicted Adel Al Yazidi on three counts of attempted murder over a shooting in March of 2004. |
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http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/cat_local_stuff.html
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| | Yezidism at Mountain Center |
| | The Yezidis (sometimes spelled Yazidi or Yazdani) are a specific subset of the Kurdish people, about 3 to 5 percent in terms of population, and live in parts of traditionally Kurdish areas currently located in northern Iraq, northeast Syria, and southeast Turkey. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~xristos/GoldenDawn/yezidi01.htm
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| | Middle Eastern Studies: Communalism and the State in Iraq: The Yazidi Kurds, c.1869-1940.(Review)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Yazidi Kurds had strong religious and economic ties that bound the community. | | | Community practices adjusted to the transition from Ottoman to British rule and to interactions with other ethnic identities. | | | The Iraqi Yazidi Kurds in the late 19th and early 20th centuries developed a sense of identity dependent on internal communal arrangements as they adjusted to larger political currents flowing through Iraq. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:54939112&refid=holomed_1
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| | WNDU-TV: News Story: Yemeni shooting suspect held in Ohio - March 31, 2004 |
| | Yazidi then fled to Ohio where police eventually caught up with him. | | | Police say Obahd asked Yazidi to watch over his salvage car business while he traveled back home to Yemen. | | | Authorities say Yazidi used a semi-automatic handgun, to shoot up a Chevrolet Avalanche, which carried Sam Obahd, his wife, and infant child. |
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http://www.wndu.com/news/032004/news_24803.php?PRINT_VERSION=1
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| | TheIndyChannel.com - News - FBI: Attempted Murder Suspect May Have Terrorist Ties |
| | Another odd twist to the story: investigators said Yazidi changed his birthday on his driver's license from 7-11 to 9-11. | | | Detectives said they also found an SKS assault rifle they believe was used in the shooting, and some disturbing videotapes showing how to use explosives. | | | Yazidi is a native of Yemen and was wanted by Indiana State Police on three attempted murder warrants. |
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http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2959642/detail.html
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| | WNDU-TV: News Story: Bond set for Yemeni murder suspect - April 06, 2004 |
| | Yazidi appeared in LaGrange County Superior Court Monday after waiving extradition from Ohio, where he was arrested two days after the shooting. | | | Vote for your Michiana Favorites and win an exotic trip! | | | According to LaGrange County Sheriff Greg Dhaene, the shooting appeared to be over bad business deals. |
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http://www.wndu.com/news/042004/news_34458.php
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