Spät Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-2202-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 580 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spät, Eszter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 7)
- The Yezidis and Late Antique Gnosis: Introduction to Eszter Spat's "Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Mythology and Oral Tradition (Istvan Perczel) (page 11)
- Acknowledgments (page 17)
- Abbreviations (page 19)
- Introduction (page 21)
- Religious Movements in the Middle East (page 55)
- The Origin of the Yezidis and of Yezidi Studies (page 89)
- The Religion of the Yezidis (page 111)
- Religious Oral Tradition and Literacy Among the Yezidis of Iraq (page 145)
- The Yezidi Creation Myth of Adam (page 167)
- The Khirqe, or Garment of Faith (page 203)
- "The Song of the Commoner": the Motif of Sleep and Awakening (page 285)
- The Origin Myth of the Yezidis - the Myth of Shehid bin Jer (page 347)
- The Birth of Prophet Ismail in the Yezidi "Tale of Ibrahim" (page 389)
- Conclusion (page 423)
- Epilogue: Late Antique Motifs and Modern Yezidism (page 431)
- Plates (page 437)
- Appendix I: Transcript of Recordings of the Myth of Adam and the Myth of Shehid bin Jer (page 447)
- Appendix II: Yezidi Hymns Translated by P. Kreyenbroek (page 483)
- Bibliography (page 545)
- Index (page 575)