Late antique motifs in Yezidi oral tradition
By: Eszter Spät
Series: Gorgias dissertations in religion -- 52
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng; kur
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9781607249986
Subjects: Yezidis
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D., Central European University, Budapest, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-543) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious movements in the Middle East; title: The origin of the Yezidis and of Yezidi studies; title: The religion of the Yezidis; title: Religious oral tradition and literacy among the Yezidis of Iraq; title: The Yezidi creation myth of Adam; title: The khirqe, or garment of faith; title: "The song of the commoner" : the motif of sleep and awakening; title: The origin myth of the Yezidis : the myth of Shehid Bin Jer; title: The birth of Prophet Ismail in the Yezidi "Tale of Ibrahim"; title: Epilogue : late antique motifs and modern Yezidism; title: Appendix I : transcript of recordings of the myth of Adam and the myth of Shehid Bin Jer; title: Appendix II : Yezidi hymns translated by P. Kreyenbroek.