God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from ... - Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Khalil Jindy Rashow, Khalīl Jindī - Google Books

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Until the late 20th century the West was unaware of the existence of an extensive corpus of Yezidi religious texts. These were traditionally transmitted orally, and were kept secret from outsiders. It was not until the 1970s that a few Yezidi intellectuals…