Sheikh Sahr

Sheikh Sahr ( kurmandschi Şêx Sahr , Arabic صخر بن مسافر, DMG Saḫr ibn Muṣāfir , also Sakhr ) was the brother of Sheikh ʿAdī and belonged to the Adawiyya order . Since Sheikh Adi had no descendants, the leadership of the Sufi order at that time went to the children of Sheikh Sahr. Another variant is that ʿAdī adopted the son of his servant Ḥasan al-Bawwāb and his descendants took over the leadership of the order.

Sheikh Sahr is a holy figure in the Yazidi faith .

Life

Sheikh Sahr was the father of Sheikh Barakat and the brother of Sheikh Adi. Like his son and brother, he was probably born in Bait Fār near Baalbek in Lebanon . His son Sheikh Barakat decided to follow his uncle Sheikh Adi to Lalish in Iraq , where they then founded the Adawiyya order.

Individual evidence

↑ Irene Dulz: The Yezidis in Iraq: between "model village" and escape . LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5704-2 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2018]).
^ John S. Guest: Survival Among the Kurds: A History of the Yezidis . Routledge, 1993, ISBN 978-0-7103-0456-8 ( google.de [accessed February 8, 2018]).
↑ Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Khalīl Jindī: God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05300-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2018]).
↑ Birgül Açikyildiz: The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion . IBTauris, 2014, ISBN 978-0-85772-061-0 ( google.de [accessed on February 11, 2018]).

[1] Irene Dulz: The Yezidis in Iraq: between "model village" and escape . LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5704-2 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2018]).

[2] John S. Guest: Survival Among the Kurds: A History of the Yezidis . Routledge, 1993, ISBN 978-0-7103-0456-8 ( google.de [accessed February 8, 2018]).

[3] Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Khalīl Jindī: God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05300-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2018]).

[4] Birgül Açikyildiz: The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion . IBTauris, 2014, ISBN 978-0-85772-061-0 ( google.de [accessed on February 11, 2018]).