Yazidis
The Yazidi (also Yezidi) are a Kurdish ethnoreligious group with Iranian peoples roots, originally from Yazd province. They are a separate branch of the Abrahamic religion tree. Their religion blends monotheism with Zoroastrianism and the religions of ancient Mesopotamia. Infant boy circumcision and Infant baptism are practised.[1][2]
They mostly live in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq alongside the Christian Assyrians. In Lalish, they have there old Yazidi Temple.[3] More people are in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria. They have been fewer since the 1990s.[4] Their religion is Yazidism. The Yazidis believe in a single god who created the world. They believe that he placed the world under the care of seven holy beings or angels. The main angel is Melek Taus, the peacock angel.
The Yazidis got worldwide attention in 2014. They face religious persecution and expulsion from their ancient home in Iraq by the jihadist Islamic State (ISIL).
Yazidis Media
Yazidi chief in Bashiqa, Iraq - picture by Albert Kahn (1910s)
Yazidi temple in Bashiqa, 2020
Yazidi women in traditional dress
Yazidi boy in traditional clothes. In Sinjar, male Yazidis used to wear pigtails.
Aziz Tamoyan, the President of the Yezidi National Union ULE in Armenia
A 2014 documentary on the Yazidis
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Yazidis wearing traditional clothes during festival in Tel Keppe, 2021
Yazidi new year celebrations in Lalish, 18 April 2017
Two Yazidi men at the new year celebrations in Lalish, 18 April 2017
Yazidi men.
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References
- ↑ Nicolaus, Peter (2016). "Yezidi Circumcision and Blood-Brotherhood (Including the Circumcision of the Dead)". Iran and the Caucasus. 20 (3–4): 325–345. doi:10.1163/1573384X-20160305.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Lalish Temple".
- ↑ Reeves, Bob (2007-02-28). Lincoln Iraqis call for protection from terrorism. Lincoln Journal Star. http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/02/28/news/local/doc45e4c4211d311953438645.txt. Retrieved 2007-02-28.
