The ancient faith of the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, centered on God and on Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel, chief of the seven angels.
Yazidism is the religion of the Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking people whose homeland is the Sinjar mountains and the Lalish valley of northern Iraq. Its teaching, carried for centuries in oral hymns, holds that God entrusted the world to seven angels, chief among them Melek Taus, and it forbids its adherents to marry outside the faith or to seek converts. The Yazidis have endured repeated persecution, most grievously in 2014, for a faith their neighbors have long misunderstood.
Sources
Primary
- The qewls, the Yazidi sacred hymns, carried orally and printed in modern collections.
Secondary
- Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Yezidism: Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition (1995).
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