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List Of Yazidi People
The following is a list of notable persons of Yazidi descent. A *Ali Atalan, politician * Arab Shamilov, novelist *Amar Suloev, mixed martial artist, hitman *Amin Farhan Jejo, Yazidi politician and author * Ibrahim Khalil, The Yazidi folk singer and songwriter *Aslan Usoyan, Russian mafia boss *Al-Hasan ibn Adi, religious heir of ‘Adī ibn Sakhr *Amirkhan Mori, owner and chairman of the Regions Group *Aziz Tamoyan,was the president of the Yezidi National Union * Sheikh Ali Ilyas is the current Baba Sheikh (religious leader) of the Yazidi community since November 2020 D *Dalal Khario, Women's Rights Award recipient, former captive of ISIS E *Emerîkê Serdar, journalist, writer, translator * Emine Evdal, writer, linguist and poet *Eskerê Boyîk, poet and writer * Ezidi Mîrza, 17th century governor of Mosul, Yezidi leader and hero F * Fakhr ad-Din ibn Adi, Yezidi saint *Farida Khalaf, former ISIS captive G * Guram Adzhoyev, former footballer H * Hazim Tahsin Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidis
Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking Endogamy, endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the Governorates of Iraq, governorates of Nineveh Governorate, Nineveh and Duhok Governorate, Duhok. There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group. Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is Monotheism, monotheistic in nature, having roots in a Ancient Iranian religion, pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. Since the spread of Islam began with the early Muslim conquests of the 7th–8th centuries, Persecution of Yazidis, Yazidis have faced persecution by Arabs and later by Turkish people, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farida Khalaf
Farida Khalaf (born circa 1995) is the pen name of a Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS in 2014 and sold into slavery. She escaped to a refugee camp, and in 2016 published a book about her experience, ''The Girl Who Escaped ISIS''. Khalaf grew up in the village of Kocho in the mountains of Iraq. In 2014, when she was 18, ISIS invaded her village. The jihadists murdered all the men and boys of age in the village, including her father and eldest brother. Single women and girls, including Farida and her friend Evin, were forced onto a bus at gunpoint and brought to Raqqa, where they were sold into sexual slavery. She was once beaten so badly by her captors that she lost sight in one eye, and could not walk for two months. The young women managed to escape to a refugee camp in northern Iraq, and Khalaf was reunited with surviving family members. Among members of her community, however, she was seen as having brought dishonor to her family by having been raped. She subsequently moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kseniya Borodina
Kseniya Kimovna Borodina (born Amoyeva) (russian: Ксе́ния Ки́мовна Бородина́ (Амо́ева); born on March 8, 1983) is a Russian television presenter and actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek .... Since 2004 she has been the presenter of the reality show '' House 2''. Personal life From 2008 to 2011 Kseniya was married to businessman Yury Budagov, they have one child together — a daughter named Maria Budagova (born June 10, 2009). From June 2011 to August 2012 Kseniya has been in relationship with now ex-member of '' House 2'' Mikhail Teryokhin, they were engaged just a month before their split. On 3 July 2015, she married businessman Kurban Omarov. Besides Maria, they have two other children: step-son Omar (born on 1 February 2008) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khurto Hajji Ismail
Khurto Hajji Ismail (1933 – 1 October 2020, ku, Xurto Hecî Îsmaîl) was the Baba Sheikh of the Yazidis until his death in 2020. He held this position since 2007. He lived in Ain Sifni, Iraq. He played an important role in reintegrating Yezidi society by helping the community avoid feuds and reintegrating thousands of Yazidi women and girls rescued from ISIS slavery and by declaring that all those who had been forced to convert to Islam should be accepted back into the Yezidi community. He died on 1 October 2020 in a hospital in Erbil, aged 87. He had entered hospital two days before with heart and kidney problems. His funeral was attended by thousands of Yazidis, governmental and partisan officials, and Islamic as well as Christian religious figures and was buried in Bozan village of Sheikhan district of Iraq's Nineveh Governorate. Visits In 2011, after a six-day visit to Georgia during which he met the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, Baba Sheikh left Tbilis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yazidism
Yazidism , alternatively Sharfadin is a Monotheism, monotheistic ethnic religion that has roots in a western Ancient Iranian religion, Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion directly derived from the Indo-Iranians, Indo-Iranian tradition. It is followed by the mainly Kurmanji-speaking Yazidis and is based on belief in one God who created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven Holy Beings, known as Angels. Preeminent among these Angels is Melek Taus, Tawûsê Melek (also spelled as "Melek Taûs"), who is the leader of the Angels and who has authority over the world. History Principal beliefs Yazidis believe in one God, whom they refer to as ', , ', and ' ('King'), and, less commonly, ' and '. According to some Yazidi hymns (known as ''Qewls''), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls. In Yazidism, fire, water, air, and the earth are sacred elements that are not to be polluted. During prayer Yazidis face towards the sun, for which they were often calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanna Omarkhali
Khanna Omarkhali, also ''Khanna Usoyan'' (; russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also ; born 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR) is a Yezidi-Kurdish religion researcher. Biography She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, from where she obtained a Ph.D. in 2006, as well as a BSc in 2002 and a MSc in 2004. In 2005, she joined the University of Göttingen as an Academic Assistant in the DFG project “Cultural memory of the Yezidi community in Germany with regard to religious questions", from 2007 to 2010 she was a bursar of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 896/2 “Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder”, with the project “Yezidi Religious Texts: Their Theological Implications with some References to the Ahl-e Haqq Religious Tradition”. Between 2010 and 2017 she was a researcher in the Institute of Iranian Studies in Göttingen and responsible for Kurdish Studies program. From 2012 to 2017, she was also responsible for setting up of the Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Rashow
Khalil Rashow or Xelîl Cindî Reşo (born 1952) is a contemporary Kurdish academic, writer and researcher. He was born in the village of '' Mam Rasha'' in district of ''Sheikhan'' in Mosul province in northern Iraq. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the department of Kurdish language and literature of University of Baghdad. He moved to Czechoslovakia in 1986 and received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of Charles University in Prague in 1991. From 1985 to 1991 he was the head of ''Society of Kurdish Students in Europe (KSSE)''. He has been teaching Kurdish language at the University of Göttingen since 1996. From 1999 to 2005 he has conducted research in cooperation with Professor ''Kreyenbroek'' on Yazidi religious beliefs. He is considered as an expert on Yazidi folklore.C. Allison, ''The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan'', 313 pp., Routledge Publishers, , p.295 From 2013 to 2015, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Vietnam Vietnam or Viet N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jangir Agha
Jangir Agha (, , , c. 1874–1943) was a prominent military and social figure of Armenia in the early 20th century. He is considered a national hero of the Yazidi people. He died in prison after bing arrested during the Great Purge in 1938; he was posthumously rehabilitated. He was born in Chubuhly village of Van Province of present-day Kurdistan (currently included in Turkey). A number of songs are written about Jangir Agha by the Yazidis. Around 1909, Jangir Agha met with Andranik, the champion of Armenian independence from the Ottoman Empire. Jangir Agha supported the Armenian loyalists, providing them with military and material aid. During the First World War, he was the commander of the irregular cavalry as a tribal leader. At the beginning of the war, Jangir Agha's First Nodist Yezidi regiment tried not to engage in combat operations against the Russian army. In 1915, after the capture of Van by the Russian army, Jangir Agha with his regiment and four other Yezidi regiments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalile Jalil
Jalileh ( fa, جليله, also Romanized as Jalīleh; also known as Jalile) is a village in Gol-e Cheydar Rural District, Sarshiv District, Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 32 families. The village is populated by Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ira .... References Towns and villages in Marivan County Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province {{Marivan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khdr Hajoyan
Khdr Hajoyan (, born December 4, 1990), is the President of the National Union of Yezidis and the Director of ''Yezdikhana'', the official newspaper of the Yezidi National Union. Early years In 2007 he graduated from Zovuni village Secondary School, named by R. Baghdasaryan admitted to the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University in the same year. Since 2008 he has been active in public life, participating in several local and international programs and festivals, presenting the Yezidi people's culture, religion, language, history, and national traditions. From May 12, 2010, to 2021, became the Editor-in-Chief of "Ezdikhana" newspaper. On June 28, 2011, he assumed the position of First Deputy Chairman of the National Union of Yezidis. In 2013 Graduated from Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law. In 2015 he graduated from the Faculty of Archeology with a master's degree in the same university. He participated in various international programs related to legal and social devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heydar Şeşo
Haydar Shesho is a Kurdish Yazidi military commander in Iraq. He is the founder and supreme commander of the Yazidi self-defense militia Protection Force of Ezidkhan (HPÊ). Life Shesho's family emigrated from Iraq under Saddam Hussein in 1990 to Germany and became German citizens. Until summer 2014 they lived in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. At the onset of the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, together with his uncle Qasim Shesho and several cousins, he returned to Iraq to help protect his Yazidi homeland. Starting with a handful of fighters, he founded the Protection Force of Sinjar, which has about 2,500 fighters. While he and his uncle, dubbed "The lion of Sinjar," were known to be supportive of the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraqi Kurdish president Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, he refused to pledge allegiance and publicly insisted they "fight only for Yazidis, not for any party." Subsequently, Haydar Shesho was arrested on 5 April 2015 by Iraqi Kurdish forces for " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heciyê Cindî
Heciyê Cindî ( hy, Հաջիե Ջնդի Ջաուարի; 1908–1990) was a Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia. Cindî was born into a Yazidi Kurdish family in the village of Yemençayir (Emançayîr) near Kars in modern Turkey. During World War I and Turkish and Soviet invasions, his family fled to Armenia and settled in the village of Elegez. Later on, he lost all his family (except for one brother) to disease and massacre. In 1919, he stayed in the American orphanage in Alexandropol, and in 1926 was transferred to the orphanage in Leninakan, Armenia. During 1929–30, Cindî taught in the villages of Qundexsaz and Elegez, and was head of the cultural section of the Kurdish newspaper '' Riya Teze'' in 1930. He also worked as a news anchor in the Kurdish section of Radio Yerevan. In 1933, he joined the Writers Union of Armenia and attended the meeting of the Soviet Writers Congress the following year. In 1937, during Joseph Stalin's purges, he was imprisoned on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
