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Anatolia is a geography that has been the cradle of different cultures and civilizations for centuries. The different cultures that lived in this geography and transferred their thoughts and beliefs here are a wealth for us... We are here to share with you the results of our journey to research Yazidism, one of the people living in the Anatolian geography, in order to get to know this richness of ours closely...
It was very difficult to finalize this study... Because we were faced with a community that only had books and articles written about them... They all approached the issue from the door they wanted to see... We tried to complete our study without offending this community...
To obtain resources on this subject, Istanbul Beyazıt State Library, one of the largest libraries in our country, Istanbul University Library, Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Library and Nation Library were the libraries we applied to.
The work published in 1910 by Mustafa Nuri Pasha, who served as the Governor of Mosul towards the end of the 19th century, Mehmed Şerafeddin's article published in the Daru'l Funun Faculty of Theology Journal in 1926, and Abdülkadir İnan's article published in the same magazine in 1931, the Russian scholar A. A. Semenov. The translated article summarized by Isya Joseph constitutes the main sources of our study.
In addition, translated undergraduate theses on this subject at Ondokuzmayıs University Faculty of Theology constitute our main sources. The works of Anastasse Marie Kremli (1899), Ahmet Timur Pasha (1929), İsmail Bey Çöl (1934) and Abdürrezzak el-Haseni (1951), who worked on Yezidism and Yazidis, were translated as undergraduate studies at this university.
We also benefited from these because they were the first studies on this subject. Also, "Tercüme es-Süryaniyye Fi Ahvali el-Fırkati el-Yezidiyye el-Şeytaniyye", whose author is unknown. We also benefited from the translation-undergraduate thesis of the work titled Salih Öncel. Because this work is one of the oldest (1909) sources on Yazidism.
