« Yezidism and its Sacred Literature: Eastern and Western Perceptions », in : Dieter Weber, ed., Languages Of Iran: Past and Present. Iranian Studies in memorian David Neil MacKenzie. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, pp. 69-80. (Iranica 8)
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Christine Allison, « « Yezidism and its Sacred Literature: Eastern and Western Perceptions », in : Dieter Weber, ed., Languages Of Iran: Past and Present. Iranian Studies in memorian David Neil MacKenzie. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, pp. 69-80. (Iranica 8) », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.12212
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In its analysis of Western views of Yezidism, this article covers some of the same ground as the author’s Yezidism: its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition (1995) but it sets this in counterpoint with Yezidi discourse and brings the whole up to date. The unusual nature of Yezidism and the oral transmission of its sacred texts posed many problems for early Orientalists who were inclined to construct models of Yezidism on the basis of the great scriptural religions of the region. Thei...