“Your Son Will Be the Scourge of Islam”
Using analyses of myths and fieldwork material, the article studies the way Yezidis, a small ethno-religious group of the Middle East, appropriated the Muslim figure of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya, the second Umayyad caliph. In his Yezidi myth, he appears as a divine being who was incarnated on earth in orde...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Year: 2018, Volume: 65, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 562-588 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ḫālid Ibn-Yazīd al-Umawī -704
/ Yezidis
/ Mythology
/ Islam
/ Reform
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Yezidism
Islam
mythology
syncretism
oral tradition
religious minorities in the Middle East
Sufism in Kurdistan
religious appropriation
scripturalization
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