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CONTENTS | ||||
Chapter | Page | |||
Introduction—The Origin of the Manuscript | 11 | |||
Notes on the Introduction | 22 | |||
PART I. THE TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIC TEXT | ||||
Preface, in the Name of the Most Compassionate God | 29 | |||
I. | Al-Jilwah—The Revelation | 30 | ||
II. | Mashaf Res—The Black Book | 36 | ||
III. | Appendix to Part I. | 53 | ||
IV. | The Poem in Praise of Šeiḫ ‘Adi | 70 | ||
V. | The Principal Prayer of the Yezidis | 73 | ||
VI. | Seven Classes of Yezidis | 75 | ||
VII. | The Articles of Faith | 77 | ||
Notes on Part I. | 83 | |||
PART II. THE CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF YEZIDISM | ||||
I. | The Religious Origin of the Yezidis | 89 | ||
I. | The Yezidi Myth | 89 | ||
II. | The Christian Tradition | 96 | ||
III. | The Speculative Theories of Western Orientalists | 103 | ||
IV. | The Dogmatic View of Mohammedan Scholars and the Writer's Own Explanation | 118 | ||
Notes on Part I. | 138 |