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M R Izady A. Introduction and a survey of the relevant primary
sources: Detailed study of clan names among...
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Idris Bitlisi had arrived to offer to deliver up Kurdistan to the
Ottomans for a mere 25,000 gold ducats.
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An overwhelming majority of Muslim and non-Muslim Kurds are followers
of one of many mystic Sufi orders (or tariqa). The bonds of...
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The history of Judaism in Kurdistan is ancient. The Talmud holds that
Jewish deportees were settled in Kurdistan 2800 years...
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About three-fifths of the Kurds, nearly all of them Kurmânji
speakers, are today at least nominally Sunni Muslims of the...
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The followers of the Yezidi religion, who have variously referred to
themselves also as the Yazidi, Yazdâni, Izadi, and Dasna’i,...
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A majority of the Dimila Kurds of Anatolia and some of their Kurmânji
speaking neighbors are followers of another denomination...
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Most non-Muslim Kurds follow one of several indigenous Kurdish faiths
of great antiquity and originality, each of which is a...
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The early history of Christianity in Kurdistan closely parallels that
of the rest of Anatolia and Mesopotamia. By the early...
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Bâbism was formed in Persia in 1844 by Mirzâ Ali Muhammad
(1819-1850), the Bdb, or “the portal” (to the Deity).
Bdb, or Bdbtl, standing...
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