Contents
Preface / xi
Part 1 The Autumn Festivals of the Yazîdis / 3
Part 2 The Shaykhân Memorial / 25 Commentary on the Memorial / 27 (i) The text / 27 (ii) The Princely Family / 28 (iii) Sbaykbs / 30 (iv) Pirs / 34 (v) Qawwâls / 35 (vi) Faqirs / 35 (vii) Köcbaks / 36 (viii) Bâbâ Cbâtvüsb / 37 (ix) Farrâsb / 37 (x) Rasbkân, Hö&eri and Mdsakt / 37 (xi) Alms and Endmvments / 37 (xii) Tbe Peaeock-Standards / 39 (xiii) Marriage / 39
Additional Notes (xiv) Brothers and Sisters of the Hereafter / 40 (xv) Murahbi / 41 (xvi) Festivals / 42 (xvii) Coştum and Taboos / 43 (xviii) Baptism / 44 (xix) Karif / 45 (xx) Early legendary History / 45 (xxi) Yazid / 48 (xxii) The Sacred Books / 49
Part 3 First Visit to Shaykhân / 53 First Visit to Sinjâr / 56 Troubled Sinjâr / 59 Farewell to Sinjâr / 68 The Kermis of HâjI Muhammad / 73
Appendix I List of Tribes showing their Affiliations / 79 II List of Villages with estimated Populations / 82 III List of Shabak Villages / 87 IV The Kurdish version of the Sacred Books / 87
Illustrations
The Shrine of Shaykh Adî (from the South) / frontispiece
Plate I. (a) Mir Tahsin Beg and Mayan Khâtün – facing page / 14 (b) Mixed Dancing at Shaykh Adı’s
Plate I. (c) Forecourt of Shaykh Adi’s / 15 (d) The Châwüsh on the Roof
Plate II. (a) The Qabâkh / 20 (b) Bringing in the Bull
Plate II. (c) In the Market Place / 21 (d) The Auction at Shaykh Shams’s
Plate III. (a) Faqir Husayn (b) Qawwâl and Köchak / 56 (c) Hamö Sherö (d) Juwâna Tribesman of Sinjâr
Plate III. (e) Yazîdls of Jabal Sinjâr (J) Mixed Dancing at Bacshiqa / 57
Map
Liwâ of Mosul - facing page / 88 |