Devil Worship, by Isya Joseph, B.A., M.A., Ph.D
by Isya Joseph
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About this eBook
- Author
- Joseph, Isya, -1923
- Title
- Devil worship : The sacred books and traditions of the Yezidiz
- Credits
- Produced by MFR, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Yezidis
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60468
- Release Date
- October 10, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s Notes
- 2.Untitled
- 3.DEVIL WORSHIP THE SACRED BOOKS AND TRADITIONS OF THE YEZIDIZ
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.Untitled
- 6.INTRODUCTION THE ORIGIN OF THE MANUSCRIPT
- 7.NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION
- 8.PART I THE TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIC TEXT
- 9.PREFACE
- 10.CHAPTER I
- 11.CHAPTER II
- 12.CHAPTER III
- 13.CHAPTER IV
- 14.CHAPTER V — Mashaf Reš (The Black Book)
- 15.Untitled
- 16.APPENDIX TO PART I
- 17.THE POEM IN PRAISE OF ŠEIḪ ‘ADÎ Peace Be unto Him
- 18.THE PRINCIPAL PRAYER OF THE YEZIDIS
- 19.SEVEN CLASSES OF YEZIDIS
- 20.ARTICLES OF FAITH
- 21.NOTES ON PART I
- 22.PART II THE CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF YEZIDISM
- 23.CHAPTER I The Religious Origin of the Yezidis — I The Yezidi Myth — II The Christian Tradition — III The Speculative Theories of Western Orientalists — IV The Dogmatic View of Mohammedan Scholars
- 24.NOTES ON CHAPTER I
- 25.CHAPTER II The Essential Elements in Yezidism — I The Yezidi View of God — II The Deity of the Second Degree
- 26.NOTES ON CHAPTER II
- 27.CHAPTER III Other Deities and Festivals — I The So-Called Seven Divinities — II The Day of Sarsal
- 28.NOTES ON CHAPTER III
- 29.CHAPTER IV Sacraments, Religious Observances and Sacerdotal System — I Sacraments — II Some Other Religious Practices — III The Sacerdotal Orders
- 30.NOTES ON CHAPTER IV
- 31.CHAPTER V Their Customs — I Marriage — II Funerals — III Nationality — IV Locality — V Dwellings — VI The Language — VII Occupation
- 32.NOTES ON CHAPTER V
- 33.CHAPTER VI List of the Yezidi Tribes — The Tribes Across the River From Mosul — The Tribes at Sinjar and Jezireh Districts — The Tribes of Midyat Region, Usually Called Jabal Tor Al-‘Abedin (Mountain of the Worshipers)
- 34.CHAPTER VII Persecution
- 35.NOTES ON CHAPTER VII
- 36.BIBLIOGRAPHY — Arabic — Kurdish — Turkish — English — French — German — Latin
- 37.INDEX
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