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The subject of the thesis is Yezidism, a religion in the Kurdish speaking areas of the Middle East. It deals with the Yezidi eschatology with a focus on ideas of the End of Time. The thesis summarises and interprets the Yezidi textual versions on the End of Time. It presents the characters featured in the texts, especially one of the Yezidi manifestations of deity - z (related to the historical Muslim Caliph YAZD I IBN MUCWIYA). It also deals with the Yezidi concepts of time and power, the Yezidi social order and history, and proposes a typology of the textual tradition in Yezidism. The thesis includes expositions on the description of the Yezidis as "devil worshippers" and the fake manuscripts long thought to be the Yezidi "sacred books". |
