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Claiming the Ezidis (Yezidis): Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Assyrian, Kurdish and Arab sources on Ezidi religious and ethnic identity.
- Source :
- Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World; Mar2020, Vol. 14 Issue 1/2, p31-49, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article explores the ways in which various religious and historical aspects of Ezidism were employed by both non-Ezidi and Ezidi authors to make claims of communal solidarity, national identity or religious categorization. Drawing upon a variety of Kurdish, Syriac, Arabic and Ottoman-language sources, it contextualizes these claims within contemporary historical developments and explores relationships between Ezidis and Assyrian/Syriac Christian communities, state authority, and Kurdish and Arab nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25158538
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149922315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00017_1