TY - BOOK TI - الديانة اليزيدية بين الاسلام والمانوية/ PY - 2001/// CY - سورية؛ PB - مؤلف؛ KW - BL74-99 Religions of the world KW - Indigenous societies KW - Yezidis KW - Syria N1 - Title translation: Yezidi between Islam and Manichaeism. Mohammed Abdul Hameed Al Hamad N2 - Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people. It is monotheistic in nature and syncretic. Having its origin from Adawiyya Sufi order, which blended Sufi Sunni Islam, a local Kurdish veneration of Yazid ibn Mu'awiya and Umayyad dynasty, and local Kurdish peasant belief of pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. By the 15th century, Yazidism developed into a distinct religion separate from Islam. Manichaeism was a major world religion founded in the third century CE by the Parthian Iranian prophet Mani (216–274) in the Sasanian Empire. It taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good spiritual world of light, and an evil material world of darkness ER -