Religious Minorities in Kurdistan

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Éditeur : Harrassowitz	Date & Lieu : 2014, Wiesbaden
Préface :	Pages : 414
Traduction :	ISBN : 978-3-447-10125-7
Langue : Anglais	Format : 175x245 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Oma. Rel. N° 4892	Thème : Religion

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Religious Minorities in Kurdistan Khanna Omarkhali Harrassowitz This anthology represents an account of the religious milieus flourishing beyond the Islamic mainstream in all parts of Kurdistan. Although nowadays Kurdistan is mostly identified with Islam, practiced by the majority of Kurds, it can be called a reservoir of religions because various religious groups of minority faiths coexist there. During this period of profound and rapid change, especially in the last few decades, various economic, political, and social transformations have taken place throughout the Middle East. The Kurds are now living under very different political conditions and the profound changes in the political landscape of each of the involved regions during the past few decades have affected the religious minorities in the Kurdish regions in various ways. Religious minorities have always remained beyond the mainstream both in Kurdistan itself and elsewhere. Most of the literature on religious minorities in the Middle East that has appeared in recent years is dedicated to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious tradition, while many other religious minority groups are frequently overlooked in this research. Until now very little has been published in the field of study of the non-Christian and non-Jewish minorities in the Middle East.1 Moreover, the focus of the scholarship, as well as that of international human rights institutions, has primarily been on the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. The idea to publish this volume was partly inspired by the ...

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Contents

List of Illustrations / VII
List of Tables / VIII
Abbreviations / IX
Preface and Acknowledgements / XIII
Transcription / XV
Introduction - Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream / XVH
Khanna Omarkhali

Ahl-e Haqq (Yaresan I Kaka î)
The Yaresan of Kurdistan / 3
Philip G. Kreyenbroek (Göttingen)
Hajj Ne'matollah Jayhunabadî (1871-1920) and His Mystical Path within the
Ahl-e Haqq Order / 13
Mojan Membrado (Paris)
Life as Ritual: Devotional Practices of the Kurdish Ahl-e Haqq of Guran / 47
Partow Hooshmandrad (Fresno, California)

Yezidis
Current Changes in the Yezidi System of Transmission of Religious
Knowledge and the Status of Spiritual Authority / 67
Khanna Omarkhali (Göttingen)
One Community, Two Identities: Syria’s Yezidis and the Struggle of a
Minority Group to Fit in / 79
Sebastian Maisel (Allendale, Michigan)
Yezidis in Censuses in the USSR and Post-Soviet Countries / 97
Nodar Mossaki (Moscow)

Alevis
“Our Alevi and Kurdish Brothers” - Some Remarks on Nationalism and
Minority Politics in Turkey / 139
Markus Dressler (Bayreuth)
An Inside View of the Kurdish Alevis: Dîwana Heq of Pir Ali Bali / 159
Lokman Turgut (Erfurt)
The Politics of Religious and Ethnic Identity among Kurdish Alevis in the
Homeland and in Diaspora / 173
Janroj Keles (London)

Sufi Orders and Shabak
The Haqqa Community: A Heterodox Movement with Sufi Origins / 227
Thomas Schmidinger (Vienna)
Khaksar Order in Kurdistan / 235
Shahrokh Raei (Gottingen)
The End of Heterodoxy? The Shabak in Post-Saddam Iraq / 247
Michiel Leezenberg (Amsterdam)

Jews
The Kurdish Jewish Communities - Lost Forever / 271
Birgit Ammann (Potsdam)
Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Literature of Kurdistani Jews / 301
Yona Sabar (Los Angeles)

Christians
Coping in Kurdistan: The Christian Diaspora / 321
Erica C.D. Hunter (London)
“The Thieving Kurds”: A Stereotype among Syrian Christians Concerning their
Coexistence with the Kurds / 339
Martin Tamcke (Gottingen)
Text, Religion, Society. The Modem Kurdish Bible Translations in the
Context of the Socio-political Changes in Kurdistan / 353
Marcin Rzepka (Krakow)

Illustrations / 371
Contributors / 385
Glossary of Terms / 391

Index
I. Personal Names / 397
II. Place Names / 401
III. General Index / 406

List of Illustrations1

Illustration 1 Three well-known kalam-khwans of the Guran region during the
Khawandkar annual celebrations in the village of Tûtshamî / 373
Illustration 2 Transcription of the group nazm Razhiyan Ddldhû / 374
Illustration 3 Yezidis during the religious feast Eyda Ezid, Armenia, 1963 / 375
Illustration 4 The village of Shadala, May 2008 / 376
Illustration 5 The cemetery of Shadala, April 2006 / 376
Illustration 6 Xaniim Ehmed Ebdul Qadir, April 2006 / 377
Illustration 7 The villages of the different branches of the Haqqa
Community in Iraqi Kurdistan / 377
Illustration 8 The entrance of the khaneqah of Kermanshah, March 2009 / 378
Illustration 9 MTr Tahers sons: MTr Kowşar and Mir Jamal al-Dîn, June 2010 / 378

Illustrations 10-11 Celebration of the birth of Imam Ali in khaneqah of
Kermanshah, June 2010 / 379
Illustration 12 The Shabak village Faziliye, July 2013 / 380
Illustrations 13-14 Jewish amulet to ward off negative influences, from Iraqi Kurdistan / 381
Illustration 15 Hakham I Rabbi 'Alwan Avidani of Amadiya, explaining a text to
Yona Sabar. Jerusalem, 1970 / 381
Illustration 16 The title page of the New Testament translation in
Kurmanji from 1872 in Armenian script / 382
Illustration 17 The New Testament translation in Kurmanji from 2000
in Cyrillic script / 383