Survival Among the Kurds

ISBN-13: 9780710304568 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 386 str.

John S. Guest

Opis

Provides a history of the Yezidis people, tracing the origin of their religion, describing the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early 19th century, and detailing the community's traumatic recent history, and their current status.

Spis treści

Antecedents; Sheikh Adi and his order; the Yezidi religion; early encounters with the outside world; prisoners on a sinking ship; English-speaking missionaries and explorers; Rassam and Layard; the tribulations of Mir Hussein Beg; Abdul Hamid and the Yezidis; the publication of the sacred books; brother and sister; the epoch of Mayan Khatun; the Yezidis in transcaucasia. Appendix: the Yezidi sacred books and Sheikh Adi's hymn; texts of the Yezidi letters to the Grand Vizier and Sir Stratford Canning; an interview with Yezidi religious leaders.

O autorze

John S. Guest