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Although once it was clear that the Sassanids would soon fall, the Kurdish chiefs one by one submitted to the Muslim armies and agreed to accept Islam, leading to their tribe members doing the same. [13] Today the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, and there are Shia, Sufi, and Alevi minorities. Sunni Muslim Kurds are mostly Shafi'is. [14]
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims who adhere to the Shafiʽi school, while a significant minority adhere to the Hanafi school [62] and also Alevism. Moreover, many Shafi'i Kurds adhere to either one of the two Sufi orders Naqshbandi and Qadiriyya. [63] Beside Sunni Islam, Alevism and Shia Islam also have millions of Kurdish followers. [64]
The great mosque in Mardin. The majority of Kurdish people are Muslim by religion. [1] [2] [3] While the relationship between religion and nationalism has usually been strained and ambivalent with the strong hold of the Islamic leaders in Kurdish society, it has generally been the conservative Muslim Kurds who formed the backbone of the Kurdish movements.
Islam historically was the mainstay of the Kurdish independence movement, and it remained so until the Kurdish independence movement was later dominated by secular nationalists. [4] This was evident during the Sheikh Said rebellion and Mahmud Barzanji revolts , and also the revolts led by Osman Abdulaziz , Mashouq al-Khaznawi , Sheikh ...
Kurdish Sunni Muslims (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Kurdish Muslims" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Spread of Islam among Kurds started in the 7th century with the Early Muslim conquests. [1] Before Islam, the majority of Kurds followed a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian faith which derived directly from Indo-Iranian tradition, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] some elements of this faith survived in Yezidism , Yarsanism and Kurdish Alevism .
The Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan was treated as a Kurdish state under Islamic law rather than an Islamic state composed of Kurds. When both the emirate and Ansar al-Islam were dissolved following Operation Viking Hammer, Mullah Krekar claimed that the PUK had no nationalism. However, he urged Ansar al-Islam to be lenient on captured PUK soldiers.
This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state, they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan" which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.) [1] [2]