The most important day of the week for Yezidis from a religious perspective is a Wednesday.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It turned out almost the entire staff of the hotel was made of Yezidis.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
During the visit, it was hard to get a sense of why the Yezidis are persecuted.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yezidis play a sort of basketball game here, balling cloth up and tossing it onto the top of the mound.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yezidis believe Sheik Adi was the possible reincarnation of Tawuse Melek.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Yezidis of Sinjar do not practice circumcision, nor do they eat pork; but they freely partake of the blood of other animals.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850|Various
One peculiar privilege, however, has recently been conceded to the Yezidis.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
The Yezidis form one of the recognized millets, or subject religious sects, existing in the Turkish Empire.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
The Yezidis of the Mosul districts have the Cawals always amongst them.
Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon|Austen H. Layard
The Yezidis have a regular hierarchy of seven orders of priesthood.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
Yezidis
/ (ˈjɛzɪdɪz) /
pl n
a religious sect found in the Kurdish areas of Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, whose beliefs combine elements of Zoroastrianism, Islam, Christianity, and other religions; in addition to believing in a Supreme God, the Yezidi worship seven angels, among whom is the devil, who is believed to have repented and been pardoned and reinstated as chief angel