Yezidis in Syria
Identity Building among a Double Minority
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2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4980-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4980-6 (ISBN)
This book highlights the complicated diversity of Syria’s ethnic and religious fragmentation on the basis of the identity building process among the Yezidis, the lowest in the country’s socio-economic and political hierarchy.
Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria’s minority context. This little known group is connected to the community’s main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of Syria’s colonial, national, and revolutionary history. Always on the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, the two sub-groups located in the Kurdagh and the Jezira experience a period of sociological and theological renewal in their quest for a recognized and protected status in the new Syria. In this book, Sebastian Maisel transmits and analyzes the Yezidi perspective on Syria’s policies towards ethnic and religious minorities.
Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria’s minority context. This little known group is connected to the community’s main living area in northern Iraq, but evolved as a separate identity group in the context of Syria’s colonial, national, and revolutionary history. Always on the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, the two sub-groups located in the Kurdagh and the Jezira experience a period of sociological and theological renewal in their quest for a recognized and protected status in the new Syria. In this book, Sebastian Maisel transmits and analyzes the Yezidi perspective on Syria’s policies towards ethnic and religious minorities.
Sebastian Maisel is associate professor of Arabic and Middle East studies at Grand Valley State University.
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Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Minorities in Syria: Competing Hierarchies
Chapter 3. Demystifying the Yezidis: A Word about the Sources
Chapter 4. Religious Beliefs and Social Organization
Chapter 5. Historical Developments
Chapter 6. Yezidis in the New Syria
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Future Challenges
Appendix
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 223 mm |
| Gewicht | 331 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-4980-2 / 1498549802 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-4980-6 / 9781498549806 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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