ISBN:
9783447199926
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 188 Seiten)
Series Statement:
"God first and last" : religious traditions and music of the Yaresan of Guran / Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Yiannis Kanakis volume 1
Series Statement:
Göttinger Orientforschungen Neue Folge 18,1
Series Statement:
3. Reihe, Iranica
Series Statement:
Gèottinger Orientforschungen. III. Reihe, Iranica Neue Folge 18,1
Series Statement:
Göttinger Orientforschungen, III. Reihe: Iranica. Neue Folge v.18
Series Statement:
Kreyenbroek, Philip G. 1948- "God first and last"
Series Statement:
Göttinger Orientforschungen Iranica
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kreyenbroek, Philip G., 1948 - "God first and last" ; Volume 1: Religious traditions
DDC:
305.6971
Keywords:
Ahl-i òHaqq
;
Ahl-i Haqq
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Terminology and Transcription -- Introduction -- General -- History of the Study -- The Gurani Tradition -- Aspects of the Yāri World-view -- Aims and methods -- The hymns in book form: collections of texts -- Chapter One: the Religious Background -- The Indo-Iranian Religion: some relevant aspects -- Zoroastrianism in Western Iran -- Roman Mithraism and the ancient Western Iranian religion -- Hellenistic cults -- Gnostic Movements of late Antiquity, Manichaeism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Yezidism -- Alevism -- Chapter Two: The Yāresān Community and its SocialOrganisation -- Languages -- Geography -- 'Caste', ritual functions, social institutions -- Chapter Three: Mythical and Factual History -- Mythical History -- Factual History -- Chapter Four: The Religious Universe -- Aspects of the Yāri Worldview -- Divine and Great Beings -- The Dowres -- Eschatology -- Chapter Five: Ritual and Observance -- Music -- The Jam -- The Nazr -- The Niyāz or Shokrāne -- Sar Sepordan -- Feasts and Fasts -- Funerary observances -- Other observances -- Yāri Observances and Twelver Shi'ite influences -- Chapter Six: Religious Narratives and Sacred Texts -- Texts and storylines -- The Form of the Kalāms -- Texts and Performance -- Texts and Religious Knowledge -- Collections of Kalāms -- The Perdiwari Kalāms -- The role of the kalāms in religious life -- APPENDIX 1: Extracts from the 'Exegesis' of Sayyed Wali -- [On Creation] -- [The History of Religions] -- [The Dowres] -- APPENDIX 2: Views from Iraqi communities -- Interview with Sayyed Khalil Āghābāb Kāka'i, Iraqi Kurdistan -- Beliefs of the Perdiwari Community, near Halabja -- APPENDIX 3: Another View of Yāri. Sayyed KhalilĀlinezhād from Sahne -- APPENDIX 4: Authoritative Muslim Comments on Yāri -- APPENDIX 5: Kalāms in recent compilations -- Bibliography.
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