Yezidism--Its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition by Philip G. Kreyenbroek

Kreyenbroek GÖTTINGER ORIENTFORSCHUNGEN IRANICA Neue Folge 18,1 © 2020, Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. Kreyenbroek | Yiannis Kanakis “God First and Last” Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran Volume 1: Religious Traditions by Philip G. Sayyed KhalilĀlinezhād from Sahne APPENDIX 4: Authoritative Muslim Comments on Yāri APPENDIX 5: Kalāms in recent compilations Bibliography Index Citation preview Table of contents : Cover Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Terminology and Transcription Introduction General History of the Study The Gurani Tradition Aspects of the Yāri World-view Aims and methods The hymns in book form: collections of texts Chapter One: the Religious Background The Indo-Iranian Religion: some relevant aspects Zoroastrianism in Western Iran Roman Mithraism and the ancient Western Iranian religion Hellenistic cults Gnostic Movements of late Antiquity, Manichaeism Christianity Islam Yezidism Alevism Chapter Two: The Yāresān Community and its SocialOrganisation Languages Geography ‘Caste’, ritual functions, social institutions Chapter Three: Mythical and Factual History Mythical History Factual History Chapter Four: The Religious Universe Aspects of the Yāri Worldview Divine and Great Beings The Dowres Eschatology Chapter Five: Ritual and Observance Music The Jam The Nazr The Niyāz or Shokrāne Sar Sepordan Feasts and Fasts Funerary observances Other observances Yāri Observances and Twelver Shi’ite influences Chapter Six: Religious Narratives and Sacred Texts Texts and storylines The Form of the Kalāms Texts and Performance Texts and Religious Knowledge Collections of Kalāms The Perdiwari Kalāms The role of the kalāms in religious life APPENDIX 1: Extracts from the ‘Exegesis’ of Sayyed Wali APPENDIX 2: Views from Iraqi communities Interview with Sayyed Khalil Āghābāb Kāka’i, Iraqi Kurdistan Beliefs of the Perdiwari Community, near Halabja APPENDIX 3: Another View of Yāri.

Yezidism--Its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition by Philip G. Kreyenbroek