Landscapes of Resistance : Narratives around Sacred Places in Sinjar (Iraq) and the Islamic State's Genocide against Yezidis /

Landscapes of Resistance : Narratives around Sacred Places in Sinjar (Iraq) and the Islamic State's Genocide against Yezidis /

On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the "Islamic State". Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority's shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In th...

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Main Author: Rassbach, Benjamin (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Iran and the Caucasus Monographs ; 4.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: PK6530

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Part1 Communal Identities, Sacred Places and Concepts of History
  • 1 Kurdish Territories, Yezidi Landscapes
  • 1 The Kurdish Question
  • 2 The Yezidis-an Encounter through the Kurdish Militants' Perspective
  • 3 Yezidi Shrines' Embeddedness in Middle Eastern Landscapes
  • 2 Visiting the Holy Beings in Their Places
  • 1 Dividing Time and Thinking Temporalities-the Shrines' Relation to the "Mystery"
  • 2 "Sign-Places" and Symbolic Graves
  • 3 Laliş-the Yezidi Axis Mundi
  • 4 Worship of Emplaced Powers throughout the Middle East
  • 5 Traces Left on the Land by the Holy Beings
  • 6 "Strong Incarnation"
  • 7 The Emplacement of Ritual
  • 3 Yezidi Sacred Places and Communal Memory
  • 1 Communal Memories of Conflict around Sacred Places
  • 2 Genres of the Yezidi Oral Tradition
  • 3 Conceptualising Yezidi History
  • 4 The Time of Şêx ʿAdî
  • 5 The Evolvement of Yezidism from a Historical Perspective
  • 6 The Fermans
  • Part2 Contention and Symbolic Order: Yezidi Sacred Landscapes
  • 4 Sinjar-a Landscape of Miracles and Contention
  • 1 "All Sacred Things Must Have Their Place"
  • 2 A Landscape of Miracles
  • 3 "The Mountain of the Hairy Ones"-Political Contentions Over Sinjar
  • 4 Narratives about the Yezidi Settlement in Sinjar
  • 5 Symbolic Order and Spatialised Narratives of Conflict
  • 1 Şêx ʿAdî's Revelation
  • 2 "You Have Stopped the Pilgrimage to Mecca!"
  • 3 Şêx Mend-Ruler of Aleppo and Master of the Snakes
  • 4 An Ambivalent Relation to Islam
  • 5 Conflictual Mimesis
  • 6 Appropriation and Layers of Meaning
  • 6 Yezidi Shrines, Social Formations and the Consolidation of Identity
  • 1 People Belong to Their Shrines
  • 2 Exclusion
  • 3 Şêx(ê) Maḥama
  • 4 Collective Identities in Sinjar and the Rise of Religion
  • 5 Şêx Kurêş, Şêx Rumî, Pîr Zekr: Sharing Sacred Places in Sinjar
  • 6 Seeing the Future from the Past: Yezidi Identity in Apocalyptic Times
  • Part3 Defending Sinjar: Kurdish Nationalism, Religious identity and the Making of the Past
  • 7 The Miracle of Şerfedîn
  • 1 The Figure of Şerfedîn
  • 2 The Hymn of Şerfedîn (Qewlê Şerfedîn)
  • 3 Narrating the Miracle, Claiming the Shrine
  • 4 Traditional Tribal Authority at the Şerfedîn Shrine: The Şeşo Family
  • 5 Traditional Religious Authority at the Shrine: The Baḥrî Micawir s of Şerfedîn
  • 6 Sharing Şerfedîn
  • 8 Mezarê Şehidên-Monuments, Martyrs and "the PKK " in Sinjar
  • 1 The Material Construction of Memory
  • 2 Death, Revolution and the Sacred Martyrs
  • 3 "Martyrs of the Sacred Earth"
  • 4 The PKK and Its Affiliates in Sinjar
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Topographical Terms
  • Index of Concepts and Foreign Terms
  • Index of Published Yezidi Oral Accounts.