Yezidis
Just discovered an excellent travelog piece on the Iraqi Yezidis at Michael J Totten’s excellent Middle East Journal.
The whole site is always well worth a read but this article is particularly excellent and there are some awesome photos. I have long had an affection for the Yezidis since first encountering them in Gurdjieff and later studying Sufism with Professor Kreyenbroek of Goettingen University who is probably the foremost authority on the Yezidis.
Although they have a bad reputation and have long been reputed to be ‘Devil worshippers’ their philosophical system is essentially a Sufic derivation and derives from the teaching of Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir. They are a very interesting area of study, there are many in Syria also.
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