Yazidi culture

Ibrahim Khalil (Kurdish: Îbrahîm Xelîl‎, May 5, 2000, Al-Hasakah, Syria) a Yazidi singer and songwriter.

Mela Huseynê Bateyî (born Hussein, Kurdish: Melayê Bateyî‎, 1417–1495) was a Kurdish poet and cleric. He laid the foundations for Kurdish mawlid literary genre since almost all Kurdish mawlids are influenced by him.

Claudius James Rich (28 March 1787 – 5 October 1821) was a British business agent, traveller and antiquarian scholar.

Yazidism, also known as Sharfadin, is a monotheistic ethnic religion which has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition. Its followers, called Yazidis, are a Kurdish-speaking community.

The Daseni Principality (Kurdish: میرگەها داسنیا, Mīrgaha Dāsiniyyā), also known as the Shaykhan (or Sheikhan) Principality as its administration was centered in the Sheikhan region (which included the primary Yezidi holy site of Lalish), was a semi-autonomous Yezidi Kurdish emirate. Established by the Daseni tribe around 906 AD following a rebellion against Hamdanid authority, it existed until 1832 when it was militarily conquered by the Soran Emirate under Muhammad Kor of Rawanduz, a campaign that culminated in widespread massacres and the execution of the last Daseni ruler, Ali Beg.

Dasini (Arabic: الداسنية al-Dāsinīyya; Kurdish: داسنی Dasnî) or Daseni, Tasini, Dasiki, is a Kurdish Yazidi tribe and ethnonym of Yazidis. The tribe resided near Mosul, Duhok, Sheikhan, Sinjar and all the way to the west bank of Greater Zab river.