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book: Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition
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Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013

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The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who practice a highly syncretistic religion based exclusively on oral tradition. Their myths and motifs, besides showing the influence of both Sufism and a pre-Zoroastrian Western Iranian mythology, are related to the religious movements of Late Antiquity, and reveal the vestiges of a common cultural substratum once shared by the people of the region.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

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    THE YEZIDIS AND LATE ANTIQUE GNOSIS: INTRODUCTION TO ESZTER SPÄT’S LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS IN YEZIDI MYTHOLOGY AND ORAL TRADITION

    XI
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    ABBREVIATIONS

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    INTRODUCTION

    1
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    2. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

    35
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    3. THE ORIGIN OF THE YEZIDIS AND OF YEZIDI STUDIES

    69
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    4. THE RELIGION OF THE YEZIDIS

    91
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    5. RELIGIOUS ORAL TRADITION AND LITERACY AMONG THE YEZIDIS OF IRAQ

    125
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    6. THE YEZIDI CREATION MYTH OF ADAM

    147
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    7. THE KHIRQE, OR GARMENT OF FAITH

    183
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    8. “THE SONG OF THE COMMONER”: THE MOTIF OF SLEEP AND AWAKENING

    265
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    9. THE ORIGIN MYTH OF THE YEZIDIS – THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER

    327
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    10. THE BIRTH OF PROPHET ISMAIL IN THE YEZIDI “TALE OF IBRAHIM”1069

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    11. CONCLUSION

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    EPILOGUE: LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS AND MODERN YEZIDISM

    411
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    APPENDIX I: TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDINGS OF THE MYTH OF ADAM AND THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER1168

    417
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    APPENDIX II: YEZIDI HYMNS TRANSLATED BY P. KREYENBROEK

    453
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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    INDEX

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Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
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