Survival Among The Kurds
This is an expanded and updated edition of "The Yezidis" by John S. Guest, published by Kegan Paul International in 1987. It has been revised and reissued in response to interest in the Kurdish people, of whom the Yezidis are a sect. The 150,000 members of the Yezidi religious group are spread out over Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the former USSR - and have, despite persecutions and discrimination, retained their identity for over 500 years. The author of this history of the Yezidis traces the origin of their religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early ninetee
eBook, English, 2012
Taylor and Francis, Hoboken, 2012