# Yazidism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/yazidism/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 061 Yazidism Ezidxelo; the Yezidi faith c.12th c. CE (organised form) – present · Iranian · Living · Northern Iraq (Sinjar, Sheikhan), Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Germany V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - c.1075–1162 CE Sheikh Adi at Lalish. - c.1254–1832 CE Repeated massacres under successive Muslim rulers; Yazidi tradition counts 72 fermans, genocidal campaigns, before the modern era. - 1892 CE Ottoman campaign; forced conversions. - 2007 CE Sinjar bombings kill nearly 800 people — the deadliest coordinated attack of the Iraq war. - 3 August 2014 CE ISIS attacks Sinjar. Thousands of men murdered; an estimated 6,000–7,000 women and girls enslaved and systematically raped; hundreds of thousands displaced to Mount Sinjar and beyond. The UN determined in 2016 that this constituted genocide. - 2016 CE Yazidi spiritual leadership takes the unprecedented step of declaring that women who were enslaved remain Yazidi and are to be received back into the community — a reversal of the tradition's own purity rules, made deliberately. - 2018 CE Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor, receives the Nobel Peace Prize. - Present Much of the community remains displaced; thousands of women and children are still missing. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door