Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream

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Studies in Oriental Religions 68

Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream

Bearbeitet von Khanna Omarkhali

1. Auflage 2014. Buch. XXXVIII, 413 S. Hardcover ISBN 978 3 447 10125 7 Format (B x L): 17 x 24 cm Gewicht: 1000 g

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Studies in Oriental Religions

Edited by Wassilios Klein and Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz Volume 68

2014

Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden

Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream Edited by Khanna Omarkhali

2014

Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden

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Contents List of Illustrations ....................................................................................... List of Tables ............................................................................................... Abbreviations ............................................................................................... Preface and Acknowledgements .................................................................. Transcription ................................................................................................

VII VIII IX XIII XV

Introduction – Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream .......................................................................................... XVII KHANNA OMARKHALI

Ahl-e Ḥaqq (Yāresān / Kākāʾī) The Yāresān of Kurdistan ............................................................................

3

PHILIP G. KREYENBROEK (Göttingen)

Ḥājj Neʿmatollāh Jayḥūnābādī (1871–1920) and His Mystical Path within the Ahl-e Ḥaqq Order ..........................................................................

13

MOJAN MEMBRADO (Paris)

Life as Ritual: Devotional Practices of the Kurdish Ahl-e Ḥaqq 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)

Contents

VI

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 Ḥaqqa Community: A Heterodox Movement with Sufi Origins ......... 227 THOMAS SCHMIDINGER (Vienna)

Khāksār Order in Kurdistan ......................................................................... 235 SHAHROKH RAEI (Göttingen)

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 (Göttingen)

Text, Religion, Society. The Modern Kurdish Bible Translations in the Context of the Socio-political Changes in Kurdistan .......................... 353 MARCIN RZEPKA (Kraków)

Illustrations .................................................................................................. Contributors ................................................................................................. Glossary of Terms ....................................................................................... Index I. Personal Names .............................................................................. II. Place Names ................................................................................... III. General Index .................................................................................

371 385 391 397 401 406

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