Table of Contents
Transliteration / vi A Note on Translation / viii List of Illustration / ix Acknowledgments / xi Vita / xx Abstract of the Dissertation / xxii
Introduction / 1 Chapter I. The Cultural and Historical Setting / 29 Chapter II. Rituals and the Sacred Poems / 116 Chapter III. The Sacred Poems: An Artistic View / 219 Chapter IV. The Sacred Poems: Interpretation And Function / 268 Chapter V. The Dissemination of Religious Knowledge among the Yazidis / 358 Appendix 1 / 410 Appendix 2 / 420 Appendix 3 / 429 Appendix 4 / 434 Appendix 5 / 444 Appendix 6 / 454 Appendix 7 / 460 Appendix 8 / 465 Appendix 9 / 471 Appendix 10 / 475 Appendix 11 / 490 Appendix 12 / 497 Appendix 13 / 505
Bibliography / 516
List of Illustrations
Map I. The genealogy of the Sheikhs according to the Yazidi traditions / 82
Map II. The genealogy of the Pirs according to the Yazidi traditions / 83
Plate I. Yazidis from Sin jar, circa 1820. (Photo: Claudias James Rich, Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan) / 30
Plate II. Wansa and Mayan Khatun, circa 1935. (Photo: ’Abd al-Razzag al-Hasani, al-Yazidiyun f i hadirihim wa madihim) / 33
Plate III. (a) Kochak and Qawwal, circa 1930. (Photo: C. J. Edmonds, A Pilgrimage to Lalish, Royal Asiatic Society) / 34 (b) Jawana Tribesman of Sinjar, circa 1930. (Photo: Ibid.) / 34
Plate IV. Mir Hussein Beg and Abdi Beg, 1849, F. C. Cooper. (Photo: Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon) / 88
Plate V. Sheikh Nasir, the Yazidi Baba Sheikh, 1849, F. C. Cooper. (Photo: Badger, the Nestorians and their Rituals) / 91
Plate VI. (a) The Standard of Ta’us Malak, 1852, Mrs. G. P. Badger. (Photo: Badger, the Nestorians and their Rituals) / 128 (b) Yazidi Qawwals, 1849, Henry Layard. (Photo: Layard, Discoveries in the Ruin of Nineveh and Babylon) / 128
Plate VII. (a) The Shrine of Sheikh Adi (from the South), 1945. (Photo: C. J. Edmonds, A Pilgrimage to Lalish, Royal Asiatic Society) / 167 (b) The Forecourt of Sheikh Adi's Shrine. (Photo: Ibid.) / 167
Piste VIII. Mixed dancing at the Shrine of Sheikh Adi, 1957. (Photo: Freya Stark, Geographical Magazine) / 168
Piste IX. Three Yazidi Authorities on the Oral Traditions / 419 (a) Faqir Haji, 1979. (Photo: Sulayman, Yazidizim...) / 419 (b) Sheikh Hàji Son of Ismail. (Photo: Ibid) / 419 (c) Faqir Ali, 1992. (Photo: Faqir Ali) / 419 |