Sheikh Obekr

Şêxûbekir
Şêxûbekir
Member of the Heptad
Venerated in	Yazidism
Region	Kurdistan
Ethnic group	Kurds (Yazidis)

Sheikh Abu Bakr^[1]^[2] (Kurdish: Şêxûbekir^[3]), Sheikh Obekr, or Sheikh Obekir, is a holy figure venerated in Yazidism, he is considered one of the Seven Divine Beings, to all of whom God assigned the World's affairs, and his 13th century earthly incarnation is considered the founding patriarch of the Qatani lineage of Sheikhs.^[4]^[5]

He is identified as the bearer and protector of Xerqa,^[6] a holy black textile which symbolizes asceticism in Yazidism. He is identified with the angel Derdayil and is in charge of the equilibrium between earth and heaven.^[7]

^ اليزيدية، سعيد ديوه جي، 2003، pp. 226، ISBN 978-9953-36-107-9
^ The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion, Birgül Açikyildiz, 2014, pp. 208, ISBN 978-0-85772-061-0
^ Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968.
^ Kreyenbroek, Philip (2005). God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05300-6. OCLC 63127403.
^ Kreyenbroek, Philip (1995). Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9004-3. OCLC 31377794.
^ Hopper, Kristen (2019-08-02). "Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis".
^ "Melek Șêxûbekir – Erzengel – Êzîpedia" (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-04.

[1] اليزيدية، سعيد ديوه جي، 2003، pp. 226، ISBN 978-9953-36-107-9

[2] The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion, Birgül Açikyildiz, 2014, pp. 208, ISBN 978-0-85772-061-0

[Omarkhali_2017-3] Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968.

[Kreyenbroek_2005-4] Kreyenbroek, Philip (2005). God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05300-6. OCLC 63127403.

[Kreyenbroek_1995-5] Kreyenbroek, Philip (1995). Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9004-3. OCLC 31377794.

[6] Hopper, Kristen (2019-08-02). "Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis".

[7] "Melek Șêxûbekir – Erzengel – Êzîpedia" (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-04.

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