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There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is monotheistic in nature, having roots in a pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith .
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Syrian Yazidis (1 P) T. Turkish Yazidis (4 P) This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 18:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsî Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. [5] [10] [19] They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. [5] [19] [21] [22] The Yazidis of Kurdistan have been called many things, most notoriously 'devil-worshippers', a term used both by unsympathetic neighbours and fascinated ...
Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.
By March 2019, when ISIS lost its caliphate, the camp was home to nearly 70,000 people. There are still about 55,000 there, including 28,000 Iraqis, 19,000 Syrians and 8,000 people from other ...
In August 2014, Yazda was founded by a group of Yazidi and Yazidi American activists in the United States centered around Yazidi communities in Lincoln, Nebraska, [5] [6] and Houston, Texas. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district, killing and enslaving thousands from the Yazidi religious minority.