Late Antique Motifs in Yezidi Oral Tradition /

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

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...

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

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