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[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.
A genetic study conducted in 2022 in Iraq on Iraqi, Turkmen, Yazidi, and Kurdish populations revealed that the genetic distance between Yazidis and Kurds was found to be closer than the genetic distance between the Kurdish and the Turkmen population, meaning that the Yazidis were found to be genetically closer to Kurds, indicating a long-shared ...
Under Sheikh Hasan, Adawiyya began to shift more towards the heterodox practices and diverge from Islam, although Adawis continued to identify as Sunni Muslims. Due to the Adawi veneration of Yazid ibn Muawiya , as well as the shared Umayyad lineage of Yazid and the Adawi sheikhs, many began to pejoratively refer to Adawis as "Yazidis", and ...
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 ...
There may be between about 12,000 and 15,000 Yazidis in Syria today. [1] [6] Since 2014, more Yazidis from Iraq have sought refuge in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria to escape the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL. [7] [8] [9] In 2014, there were about 40,000 Yazidis in Syria, primarily in the Al-Jazirah. [10]
Yazidi converts to Christianity were mistreated by the Yazidi community. [34] In 2023, an Evangelical missionary group sparked controversy after praying at a Yazidi temple for the destruction of Yazidism. After the Yazidi genocide, there was a wave of Yazidi conversion to Christianity, mostly through missionaries.
The Yazidis call themselves Dāsin, Dasnī, Dasenī, plurally as Dawāsīn, duāsin, dawāšim, the origin of the name probably comes from an old Nestorian diocese. Yazidis are called Dasnāyē or Dasnîyê in Syriac. [2] The name of Dâsin (plur. Dawâsin) is derived from old Iranic language *daêvaysna which means "Daeva worshippers". [7]
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.