Khalil Rashow or Xelîl Cindî Reşo (born 1952) is a contemporary

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academic, writer and researcher. He was born in the village of '' Mam Rasha'' in district of ''Sheikhan'' in

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province in northern

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. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the department of Kurdish language and literature of

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. He moved to

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in 1986 and received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of

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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

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since 1996. From 1999 to 2005 he has conducted research in cooperation with Professor ''Kreyenbroek'' on

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religious beliefs. He is considered as an expert on Yazidi

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.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

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Books

#''Êzidiyatî: li ber roşnaya hindek têkistêt ayinê Êzidiyan'' (Yazidism: In Light of Some Yazidi Religious Texts), Korî Zanyarî Kurd, Baghdad 1979. (in Kurdish, co-authored with Xidir Silêman). #Kurdish national liberation movements in southern Kurdistan 1939-1968, APEC Publishers, Stockholm, 1994. (in Arabic) #''Du´a û dirozêt Êzidiyan'' (Prayers of the Yazidis), in two parts, Einbeck Publishers, Germany, 1997. (in Kurdish) #Nehwa me´rifat haqîqet al-diyana al-êzidiya, Rabun Publishers, Sweden, 1998.(in Arabic) #''Perin ji Edebê Dînê Êzidiyan'' (Pages from religious literature of Yazidis), in two volumes, Spîrêz Publishers, Duhok, 2004. (in Kurdish) #Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition, Berlin, Iranika. (co-authored with Prof. Kreyenbroek) (in English)

References

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