Community town · Sheikhan & Lalish
Ba'adre Baʼedrê
The traditional residence of the Mîr, the hereditary prince and temporal head of the Yazidi community.
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About Ba'adre
Baʼedrê, a town in the Sheikhan district, is the traditional seat of the Mîr — the hereditary prince who is the temporal head of the Yazidi community and, with the Baba Sheikh, one of its highest offices.
The princely household at Baʼedrê has historically served as a point of reference for the community across Iraq, the Caucasus, and the diaspora, even as political circumstances around the office have changed.
This is a community place rather than a primarily religious one. Population and return figures move and are always given with a source and a date rather than stated as fixed.
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References for this place
This entry is an editorial synthesis of the references below, chosen for the place type. It reproduces no restricted or copyrighted text and should be expanded only after specialist review.
The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion
Bloomsbury, 2014. Anchor reference for Yazidi sacred sites, shrines, architecture, and material culture, including Lalish and the shrines of Sinjar and Sheikhan.
The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan
Routledge, 2001. Reference for place, community, and identity in the Iraqi Yazidi heartland of Sheikhan and Sinjar.
The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq
I.B. Tauris, 1999. Settlement, society, and administration of Sinjar and Sheikhan in the late Ottoman and mandate periods.