Survival Among the Kurds

ISBN-13: 9781138983403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 386 str.

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Opis

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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