Supreme creator God

The tradition affirms a supreme God who creates the world and establishes its order.

66%

Confidence

Supportive

Contrary

Neutral

What it is: Yazidism affirms the existence of a supreme God, creator of the world and ultimate source of cosmic order.

How the tradition understands it: God is conceived as sovereign and transcendent. In many descriptions of the tradition, the governance of the world is exercised through mediation of subordinate sacred beings, without this denying divine primacy.

Basis and context: Yazidi religious language preserves clear monotheism, although expressed in its own symbolic structures that are not always easily translated into external categories.

Debates and variations: Observers differ in classifying this theology as simple monotheism or monotheism with very strong angelic mediations, but the supremacy of the Creator is constant.

Supportive

Britannica, Yazidi Entry

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A concise entry on the tradition's origins, beliefs, and practices.

Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica, entry on the Yazidi.
Content: It summarizes historical origins, seven sacred beings, Tawusi Melek, Lalish, endogamy, purity, and transmigration of souls.
Use in debate: It is useful as a general synthesis and as an entry point into the religion's central beliefs.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, Yazidis i. General

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A reference academic study on Yazidi identity, practice, and beliefs.

Reference: Encyclopaedia Iranica, article 'Yazidis i. General,' by Christine Allison.
Content: It highlights the importance of orthopraxy, religious purity, metempsychosis, and communal organization.
Use in debate: It is one of the most cited academic sources for a general description of Yezidism.

Neutral

Comparative Studies on Yezidism and the Sufi-Islamic Environment

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The historical formation of Yezidism is compared to Sufi and Islamic contexts without being reduced to them.

Reference: Comparative studies on the relationship between Yezidism, Sufism, and the medieval Islamic environment.
Content: The literature shows that the tradition emerged in intense contact with the legacy of Sheikh Adi and with Islamic vocabulary, but consolidated its own religion and not simply a late Islamic sect.
Use in debate: It is an important source for the historical formation of the tradition and its distinctive identity.