Yezidi religious textual tradition: From oral to written
Over the past twenty years, the academic and public study of the Yezidi religion and culture has made a great success. Nevertheless, several points remain to be completed, especially in relation to many specific aspects of the textual tradition. These gaps are partly explained by the fact that many elements of religious knowledge, as a rule, are not fully disclosed to the Yezidis, to no one else.
Hannah Omarhali, a highly qualified academic who comes from a respected family of Yezidi religious and spiritual leaders (Pir), she had unique opportunities to study all aspects of the Yezidi tradition.
The book by H. Omarkhali is a comprehensive study of the Yezidi religious tradition and contains descriptions of many still unknown aspects of the oral transmission of Yezidi religious knowledge. According to the author, Yezidism is undergoing changes in the new conditions resulting from migration, modernization, globalization, the role of the media and other external and internal influences. These events can only be judged on the basis of detailed information gathered through an inductive, evidence-based approach.
The book presents a full account of the "mechanisms" underlying the various traditions. The author shows how the religious textual tradition functioned and to some extent still functions in modern times. She also describes the transformations it is currently undergoing, including problems and processes associated with the growing tendency for the transfer of religious knowledge in writing.
The work of Hannah contains several still unpublished texts, and the most complete overview of the sacred Yezidi texts that exist today.
The book includes four cards, as well as a CD.
Khanna Rzayevna Usoyan was born on March 15, 1981 in the Armenian SSR. By origin, she belongs to the family of Yezidi clerics (Pir) Omarkhali, and for this reason she is often signed by a “hereditary” surname. Russian religious scholar, Ph.D. in Philosophy, lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg State University and the German University of Gottingen.
Hannah Omarhali
Tags: ezidi yazidis yezidis yazidisinfo culturalofthecaucasusyezidis езиды культураезидов
Yezidi religious textual tradition: From oral to written
Over the past twenty years, the academic and public study of the Yezidi religion and culture has made a great success. Nevertheless, several points remain to be completed, especially in relation to many specific aspects of the textual tradition. These gaps are partly explained by the fact that many elements of religious knowledge, as a rule, are not fully disclosed to the Yezidis, to no one else.
Hannah Omarhali, a highly qualified academic who comes from a respected family of Yezidi religious and spiritual leaders (Pir), she had unique opportunities to study all aspects of the Yezidi tradition.
The book by H. Omarkhali is a comprehensive study of the Yezidi religious tradition and contains descriptions of many still unknown aspects of the oral transmission of Yezidi religious knowledge. According to the author, Yezidism is undergoing changes in the new conditions resulting from migration, modernization, globalization, the role of the media and other external and internal influences. These events can only be judged on the basis of detailed information gathered through an inductive, evidence-based approach.
The book presents a full account of the "mechanisms" underlying the various traditions. The author shows how the religious textual tradition functioned and to some extent still functions in modern times. She also describes the transformations it is currently undergoing, including problems and processes associated with the growing tendency for the transfer of religious knowledge in writing.
The work of Hannah contains several still unpublished texts, and the most complete overview of the sacred Yezidi texts that exist today.
The book includes four cards, as well as a CD.
Khanna Rzayevna Usoyan was born on March 15, 1981 in the Armenian SSR. By origin, she belongs to the family of Yezidi clerics (Pir) Omarkhali, and for this reason she is often signed by a “hereditary” surname. Russian religious scholar, Ph.D. in Philosophy, lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St. Petersburg State University and the German University of Gottingen.
Hannah Omarhali
Tags: ezidi yazidis yezidis yazidisinfo culturalofthecaucasusyezidis езиды культураезидов
