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Index Of Articles Related To The Yazidis
Alphabetical index of articles about the Yazidis, and their history and culture. The Yazidis are a ethnoreligious group, Sub-ethnic group of Kurds found chiefly in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their religion, Yazidism, blends ancient Mesopotamian beliefs with aspects of Islam and Christianity. Throughout history, the Yazidis have experienced numerous persecutions and discrimination, including genocides committed by the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic State group. Due to these events, many Yazidis have been displaced, and the community continues to face many struggles. Most Yazidis still live in northern Iraq, particularly in the Nineveh Governorate, though there are also smaller communities in other countries such as Armenia, Georgia, Syria, and Turkey. There are also some Yazidi diaspora communities in other nations, such as Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. These communities have formed due to the repeated violence and persecution that the Yazidis have faced, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidis
Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (; ), are a Kurdish languages, Kurdish-speaking Endogamy, endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the Governorates of Iraq, governorates of Nineveh Governorate, Nineveh and Duhok Governorate, Duhok. There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group. Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is Monotheism, monotheistic in nature, having roots in a Ancient Iranian religion, pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. Since the spread of Islam began with the early Muslim conquests of the 7th–8th centuries, Persecution of Yazidis, Yazidis have faced persecution by Arabs and later by Turkish people, Turks, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ain Sifni
Ain Sifni (, , ) also known as Shekhan (), is a town and subdistrict in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located in the Shekhan District in the Nineveh Plains. Ain Sifni is largely populated by Yazidis, most of whom speak Kurmanji Kurdish. In the town, there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Yousif, and a church of Mar Gewargis of the Ancient Church of the East. There are also seven Yazidi religious monuments, including mausoleums of Sheikh ‘Alî Chamse and Sheikh Hantuch, and shrines of Sheikh Adi, Nishingaha Peroz, and Sheikh Mushelleh. Etymology The Kurdish name of the town is derived from the plural form of "sheikh" ("holy man" in Kurdish), and thus translates to " he land of theholy men". According to Yazidi tradition, Shekhan means "two sheikhs" and referred to the first time that Abdulqadir Gilani, founder of Qadiriyya, and Adi ibn Musafir, founder of Adawiyya, had met, which was on the site of what later became Shekhan. The Arabic name, Ain Sifni, is interpr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aragats, Aragatsotn
Aragats () is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to .... References *World Gazetteer: Armenia– World-Gazetteer.com * Populated places in Aragatsotn Province Yazidi populated places in Armenia {{Aragatsotn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Shamilov
Arab Shamilov (, also known as ; 23 January 1897 – 1978) was a Kurdish novelist and scholar who lived in the Soviet Union. Early career Arab Shamilov was born on 23 January 1897 in the village of Susuz in the Kars oblast, now located in eastern Turkey but then part of the Russian Empire. During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, he served as an interpreter for the Russian army. Later on, he became a member of the central committee of the Armenian Communist Party. In 1931, he began working on Kurdish literature at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Studies. He assisted in developing a Latin-based alphabet for the Kurdish language in 1927. He became a member of the editorial board of the Kurdish newspaper '' Ria Taza'' (''The New Path''), published in Yerevan from 1930 to 1937. In Leningrad, he also met the Kurdish linguist Qanate Kurdo and published his work as a document about Kurdish language in Armenia. Literary output His first and most celebrated work, the story ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 2007 Yazidi Massacre
The April 2007 Yazidi massacre was a massacre of Yazidis that took place on April 22, 2007, in Mosul, in northern Iraq. Massacre At around 2PM (GMT+3), a bus carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory en route to Bashiqa, Al-Hamdaniya District was stopped by cars owned by unidentified attackers. With the bus now stationary, the attackers got on, and checked the passengers' identity cards. According to Iraqi police, after checking their identification, the armed gunmen told the Muslim and Christian passengers to get off the bus. They then drove the bus to eastern Mosul with 23 remaining passengers, all Yazidis, where the hostages were made to lie face down in front of a wall and shot, execution-style. Reactions According to ''The New York Times'', hundreds of Yazidis from Bashiqa gathered in the street to protest the killings. See also *Qahtaniyah bombings, later that same year in August 2007 *Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State *Sinjar massacre The Sinjar mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apaga, Armenia
Apaga (; until 1935, Verin Turkmenlu)John Brady Kiesling, Raffi Kojian (2001). ''Rediscovering Armenia: An Archaeological/touristic Gazetteer and Map Set for the Historical Monuments of Armenia''. Yerevan: Tigran Mets; p. 40 is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. Notable People * Ruben Muradyan, Armenian ballet dancer, presenter and actor See also *Armavir Province Armavir (, ), is a administrative divisions of Armenia, province (''marz'') in the western part of Armenia. Located in the Ararat plain dominated by Mount Ararat from the south and Mount Aragats from the north, the province's capital is the tow ... References *World Gazeteer: Armenia– World-Gazetteer.com * * Populated places in Armavir Province Yazidi populated places in Armenia {{ArmavirAM-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirkhan Mori
Amirkhan Alikovich Mori (born November 13, 1961, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian entrepreneur, Chairman of the Board at Regions Group. Mori is a Kurd–Yazidi. Biography Amirkhan Mori graduated from the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering with a degree in Economics and Management in 2003. He did his military service in the Soviet Army, Soviet Armed Forces from 1984 to 1986. Amirkhan Mori joined the workforce in 1978, first as an office worker at the Distributed Control System of the Retail Management Department of Tbilisi, and then as a technology specialist at the Research Institute for Stable Isotopes, also in Tbilisi, Georgia. He joined forces with his brother to establish one of the first self-supporting for-profit companies in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. Amirkhan Mori has held executive positions at various for-profit organizations since 1992. He has been one of the owners of PNTZ (a company based in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region) since 1998. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amin Farhan Jejo
Amin Farhan Jejo (; also ''Ameen Farhan Jejo'') is a Yazidi Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (; ), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in ... politician and author. Career Amin Farhan Jejo was one of the leaders of the Yazidi-interest party, Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress. In December 2005, Amin Farhan Jejo was given a seat in the Iraqi parliament when his Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress party won 0.2 percent of the country's vote. Works Amin Farhan Jejo published books about Yazidi nationalism and the Yazidi language. One of his books is titled ''The Yezidi Nationalism: Its Roots, Constituents and Sufferings'' and another of his books is titled ''The Origins of the Yezidi Language''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:jejo, amin farhan Iraqi Yazidis Iraqi politicians Iraqi writers People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amasia, Armavir
Amasia (, also Romanized as Amasiya) is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. See also *Armavir Province Armavir (, ), is a administrative divisions of Armenia, province (''marz'') in the western part of Armenia. Located in the Ararat plain dominated by Mount Ararat from the south and Mount Aragats from the north, the province's capital is the tow ... References * * * Populated places in Armavir Province Populated places established in 1930 Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union 1930 establishments in Armenia Yazidi populated places in Armenia {{ArmavirAM-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Suloev
Amar Suloev (January 7, 1976 – June 27, 2016) was an Armenian mixed martial artist. Following his mixed martial arts career, Suloev allegedly became involved in the world of organized crime and was arrested and accused of being a contract killer Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, moneta .... He died of stomach cancer in June 2016. During his career, he fought for the UFC, PRIDE Fighting Championships, Cage Rage, and M-1 Global. Suloev made the first recorded use of the submission hold that became known as the Suloev Stretch in a 2002 victory over Paul Cahoon. The hold, a Leglock#Kneebar, kneebar variant applied from the back control position, was subsequently used effectively by MMA fighters including Kenny Robertson, Aljamain Sterling and Zabit Magomedsharipov. It has also b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amadin
Amadin or ‘Imād ad-Dīn () was a 13th-century Yazidi saint. He was a member of the 'Adawiyya order of Sufism. He was known throughout Kurdistan for healing stomach pains. Family tree Amadin was one of the nine sons of Sheikh Shems Sheikh Shems or Melek Shams ad-Din () is a holy figure venerated in Yazidism, he is considered one of the Seven Divine Beings, to all of whom God assigned the World's affairs, and his earthly incarnation is considered one of the four sons of Ezdin .... He is associated with healing stomach pains. References 13th-century births 13th-century deaths 13th-century Kurdish people Yazidi holy figures {{MEast-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Atalan
Ali Atalan (born 5 January 1968) is a Kurdish-German politician of Yazidi faith. He is a former member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with Die Linke in Germany, and the Turkish Parliament with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Early life and education Ali Atalan grew up in a Kurds-Yazidis family and came to Germany in 1985. After completing his Abitur in 1997, he studied political science and sociology at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he graduated in 2004 with a Diplom in social science. Political career In Dülmen, Atalan belonged to the social committee of the city council from 1990 until 1994. A member of the Greens from 1998 until 2001, he became a member of the Left Party in Germany in 2001. In 2004, he became a member of the city council in Münster. In the 2010 state elections, he was eighth on the state list of Die Linke North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 2010 until 2012, he assumed a seat in the 15th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
