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Shehîd ibn Jerr ("Witness, son of the Jar"; also Shahîd ibn Jarr) is the name for Seth in Yazidism. Story. According to a narrative among Yazidis, Adam and Eve each deposited their seeds into separate jars.
Aug 13, 2014 · Yazidis believe they are descended from Adam alone through his son Shehid bin Jer, born without Eve as his mother.
- Origins
- Early Relations with The Middle East
- The Ottoman Period
- Identity
- Religion
- Conclusion
Sufis are Muslims who practise a more mystical path of devotion to God. Sufism is not exactly a separate sect of Islam but can refer to a variety of organisations that emphasise devotional piety and direct experience of God. Yezidism emerged in 12thcentury with the arrival of Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir more commonly known simply as Sheikh Adi. He origi...
The Yazidis’ ever-growing large influential power caused them at the time to be perceived as a menacing group by the neighbouring Muslims which intensified the Yazidi-Muslim conflict that would last for centuries to come. The Yazidis became more vulnerable and were subject to brutal persecution by the Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Sunni Kurds. The mo...
Yazidis have for most of the time received less than favourable treatment and have for a large portion of their history been under the rule of Muslim empires and kingdoms. This intermittent persecution and oppression by the Muslims can be traced as in so many other cases to social factors. During the Ottoman era, for example, when the Ottomans conq...
Kurdish identity keeps springing up endlessly when conducting research on Yazidis. The name “Yazidi” is contested and there is no consensus where it came from and why it was applied to these people. Some think it is connected to the Persian word “Yazad” which means “divine being”, others think its origins go back to the second Umayyad Caliph Yazid ...
The idea of non-Abrahamic religion, like that of the Yazidis with roots all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia sounds less intriguing. This became headline news when the UN declared ISIS were committing genocide against this religion due to their belief that the Yazidis worshiped the devil. We could easily sense this is a syncretic religion due to...
The Yazidi population currently in the world is not known but it is estimated to be around 2 million. The largest population that lived in the Sinjar Mountain was severely minimised in 2014 due the genocide inflicted by ISIS that caused a total exodus. Yezidism, therefore, has a significant diaspora community around the world. This has led to quest...
Yazidis people believe they were created uniquely from the rest of humankind. Unlike other humans that were from Eve, they descended from Adam through his son Shehid bin Jer. This belief made marriage outside their community forbidden. Contact with outsiders is discouraged.
Shehid bin Jer inherited the divine wisdom that Tawsi Melek had taught his father Adam and then passed it down to his offspring, the earliest Yezidis. It is this wisdom that has become the foundation of the Yezidi religion.
Mam Rashan Shrine is a Yazidi site built in the 12th century located on Mount Sinjar in Iraq. The shrine is dedicated to Pîr Mehmed Reşan, a Yazidi holy figure associated with agriculture, rain, and the annual harvest. [1] Destruction and reconstruction.
Oct 19, 2022 · Shehîd ibn Jerr ("Witness, son of the Jar"; also Shahîd ibn Jarr) is the name for Seth in Yazidism. Story. According to Yazidi oral literature, Adam and Eve each deposited their seeds into separate jars. While Eve's seed developed into insects after 9 months, Adam's seed gave birth to Shehid ibn Jerr, the ancestor of the Yazidis. Yazidis thus ...
