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Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (/ j ə ˈ z iː d i z / ⓘ; [24] Êzidî), [25] are a Kurdish-speaking [26] endogamous [27] [28] religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.
[d] Its followers, called Yazidis, are a Kurdish-speaking community. [e] Yazidism includes elements of ancient Iranian religions, as well as elements of Judaism, Church of the East, and Islam. [4] Yazidism is based on belief in one God who created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Beings, known as Angels.
[49] [50] Sheikh Mand, the son of Fakhruddin, also emerged as the ruler of the Yazidi-Ayyubid Emirate of Kilis, and an Ayyubid military commander. His sister, Khatuna Fekhra, was also revered as an important Yazidi female saint. [51] [52] [53] Yazidis denied that their name came from Yazid ibn Muawiyah and claimed that it came from Sultan Ezid ...
Yazidis believe that Tawûsî Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. [8] [9] [10] They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen nor a disgraced angel, but an emanation of God himself. [8] [9] [10] The Yazidis believe that the founder or reformer of their religion, Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir, was an incarnation of Tawûsî ...
Some Ottoman Yazidis converted to Christianity due to social issues regarding Yazidism. In the 19th century, both Protestant and Catholic missionaries developed an interest for Yazidis. In the Ottoman Empire, leaving Islam was a crime, however, since Yazidis were not Muslim, it was not a crime for them to convert nor was it a crime to convert them.
Many Yazidi villages were attacked by the Hamidiye cavalry and the residents were killed. The Yazidi villages of Bashiqa and Bahzani were also raided and many Yazidi temples were destroyed. The Yazidi Mir Ali Beg was captured and held in Kastamonu. The central shrine of the Yazidis Lalish was converted into a Quran school.
Many Yazidis came to the Russian Empire (now the territory of Armenia and Georgia) under their leader Temur Agha during the 19th and his grandson Usuv Beg in late 19th and early 20th centuries to escape religious persecution, as they were oppressed by the Ottoman Turks and the Sunni Kurds who tried to convert them to Islam.
Yazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a pseudohistoric [1] pre-Islamic religion with claimed ties relating to a Mithraic religion of the Kurds.The term was introduced and proposed by Kurdish and Belgian scholar Mehrdad Izady to represent what he considers the "original" religion of the Kurds.