Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition / / Eszter Spät.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Spät, Eszter,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- THE YEZIDIS AND LATE ANTIQUE GNOSIS: INTRODUCTION TO ESZTER SPÄT’S LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS IN YEZIDI MYTHOLOGY AND ORAL TRADITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 3. THE ORIGIN OF THE YEZIDIS AND OF YEZIDI STUDIES -- 4. THE RELIGION OF THE YEZIDIS -- 5. RELIGIOUS ORAL TRADITION AND LITERACY AMONG THE YEZIDIS OF IRAQ -- 6. THE YEZIDI CREATION MYTH OF ADAM -- 7. THE KHIRQE, OR GARMENT OF FAITH -- 8. “THE SONG OF THE COMMONER”: THE MOTIF OF SLEEP AND AWAKENING -- 9. THE ORIGIN MYTH OF THE YEZIDIS – THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER -- 10. THE BIRTH OF PROPHET ISMAIL IN THE YEZIDI “TALE OF IBRAHIM”1069 -- 11. CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE: LATE ANTIQUE MOTIFS AND MODERN YEZIDISM -- APPENDIX I: TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDINGS OF THE MYTH OF ADAM AND THE MYTH OF SHEHID BIN JER1168 -- APPENDIX II: YEZIDI HYMNS TRANSLATED BY P. KREYENBROEK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX