Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority - Hardcover

Maisel, Sebastian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739177745 ISBN 13: 9780739177747

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Sebastian Maisel, PhD, is professor for Arabic language and translations at Leipzig University. He edited The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society (Greenwood, 2018) and co-edited the two-volume Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab States Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Arab States (Greenwood, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739177745
• ISBN 13: 9780739177747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204