Overview of hostility, discrimination, and persecution against the Yazidi people
Yazidi refugee children from Sinjar in Newroz Camp, Al-Malikiyah District , August 2014, after the Sinjar massacre .
Ruins of the Yazidi shrine of Mam Rashan in Sinjar mountains after its destruction by the Islamic State .
The persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least 637 CE.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji -speaking[ 5] minority, indigenous to Kurdistan ,[ 6] who had also been persecuted when they followed Adawiyya , the predecessor of the Yazidi religion , which has historically been regarded as "devil-worship" among the followers of Abrahamic religions , primarily among Muslims and is still described as such by some, especially by Islamic extremists .[ 1] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Yazidis have been persecuted by surrounding Muslim state entities and groups since the medieval ages, most notably by Safavids [citation needed ] , Ottomans , neighbouring Muslim Arab and Kurdish tribes and principalities.[ 1] [ 3] [ 10] [ 11] After the 2014 Sinjar massacre of thousands of Yazidis by ISIL , which started the ethnic, cultural, and religious genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq ,[ 1] Yazidis still face discrimination from the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government .
^ a b c d Allison, Christine (25 January 2017). "The Yazidis" . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion . Oxford : Oxford University Press . doi :10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.254 . ISBN 9780199340378 . Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2021 .
^ Asatrian, Garnik S. ; Arakelova, Victoria (2014). "Part I: The One God - Malak-Tāwūs: The Leader of the Triad" . The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World . Gnostica. Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge . pp. 1– 28. doi :10.4324/9781315728896 . ISBN 978-1-84465-761-2 . OCLC 931029996 .
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^ Acikyildiz, Birgul (2014-08-20). The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion . Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-78453-216-1 .
^ Allison, Christine (20 February 2004). "Yazidis i: General" . Encyclopædia Iranica . Retrieved 20 August 2010 .
^ Nelida Fuccaro (1999). The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq . London & New York: I. B. Tauris. p. 9. ISBN 1860641709 .
^ Asatrian, Garnik S.; Arakelova, Victoria (2014-09-03). The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54428-9 .
^ van Bruinessen, Martin (1992). "Chapter 2: Kurdish society, ethnicity, nationalism and refugee problems" . In Kreyenbroek, Philip G.; Sperl, Stefan (eds.). The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview . London : Routledge . pp. 26–52 . ISBN 978-0-415-07265-6 . OCLC 919303390 .
^ Jalabi, Raya (2014-08-11). "Who are the Yazidis and why is Isis hunting them?" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-12-01 .
^ Guest (2012-11-12). Survival Among The Kurds . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-15736-3 .
^ Evliya Çelebi, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588–1662), Translated by Robert Dankoff , 304 pp., SUNY Press, 1991; ISBN 0-7914-0640-7 , pp. 169–171