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The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written

Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts with Samples of Oral and Written Religious Texts and with Audio and Video Samples on CD-ROM

Khanna Omarkhali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

625 Seiten | Ausstattung: CD-ROM (Software)

2017
Harrassowitz Verlag
978-3-447-10856-0 (ISBN)

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Public and academic interest in the Yezidis, their religion and culture, has increased greatly in recent years. The study of Yezidism has also made considerable progress in recent decades. Still, several lacunae in our knowledge remain, notably concerning many concrete aspects of the textual tradition. These gaps are due in part to the fact that many elements of religious knowledge are generally not revealed to non-Yezidis. Khanna Omarkhali, a highly qualified academic who also stems from a respected Yezidi family of religious leaders (Pir), has had unique opportunities to investigate such aspects of the Yezidi tradition.This book is a comprehensive study of the Yezidi religious textual tradition, containing descriptions of many hitherto unknown aspects of the oral transmission of Yezidi religious knowledge. It presents a detailed account of the 'mechanisms' underlying various aspects of the tradition. It shows how the religious textual tradition functioned - and to a certain degree still does - in its pre-modern way, and also describes the transformations it is currently undergoing, including the issues and processes involved in the increasing trend to commit religious knowledge to writing, and indeed to create a written canon.The work contains several hitherto unpublished texts and the most comprehensive survey to date of the extant Yezidi sacred texts. It includes four maps, a glossary of terms and a list of Yezidi lineages, and is accompanied by a CD with an extensive collection of recordings of texts (208 minutes).

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Oriental Religions ; 72
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1363 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Schlagworte	Irak • Irak /Religion • Iran • Jesiden • Kurden /Religion • Religionsgemeinschaft • Religion und Glaube • Syrien • Syrien /Religion • Türkei • Türkei /Religion
ISBN-10	3-447-10856-8 / 3447108568
ISBN-13	978-3-447-10856-0 / 9783447108560
Zustand	Neuware