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Yazdânism
Sign in to saveYazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a proposed pre-Islamic religion with claimed ties relating to a Mithraic religion of the Kurds. The term was introduced and proposed by Kurdish and Belgian scholar Mehrdad Izady to represent what he considers the "original" religion of the Kurds.
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11 sectionsContents
- Principal beliefs
- Seven divine beings
- Difference in practices from Islam
- Denominations
- Yarsanism
- Yazidism
- Reception
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
Yazdânism, or the Cult of Angels, is a proposed pre-Islamic religion with claimed ties relating to a Mithraic religion of the Kurds. The term was introduced and proposed by Kurdish and Belgian scholar Mehrdad Izady to represent what he considers the "original" religion of the Kurds.
According to Izady, Yazdânism is now continued in the denominations of Yazidism, Yarsanism, and Kurdish Alevism. Shabakism was also included, although it later declined as a religion.