STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS

STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS

STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS

FARIBORZ M. REZA HAMZEH’EE

In:

STUDIA IRANICA. CAHIER 11

SOCIETAS IRANOLOGICA EUROPAEA

RECURRENT PATTERNS IN IRANIAN RELIGIONS

FROM MAZDAISM TO SUFISM

 

Proceedings of the Round Tables Held in Bamberg      

  (30th September – 4th October 1991)

 

Sous la direction de

PHILIPPE GIGNOUX

ASSOCIATION POUR L’AVANCEMENT DES ÉTUDES IRANIENNES

PARIS 1992

PP: 29-35

STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS

Some recent reports show that the Yazidis are going through important changes in the development of their community. A group of Iraqi Yazidi Kurds had met some of Indian Parsis in Dubai and declared themselves to be of Zoroastrian faith. As it is mentioned in the newsletter of the abovementioned organization, a Yazidi who is supposed to be one of the Emirs of this community along with some of his followers were keen to go to India »to establish links and be recognized as fellow Zoroastrians as well as to know more about the religion and its customs and practices as practiced in India» I later came to know that this group of Yazidis have established a Zoroastrian association in Paris in 1983 and the above- mentioned Emir has published a book called: «To us spoke Zarathustra»….

STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS
STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN MAZDAISM AND SUFISM AND THE KURDISH RELIGIONS

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