Pir Mam Rashan or Pir Mehmed Reshan (Kurdish: Pîr Mehmed Reşan, Pîr Memê Reşan, Pîr Mamreşan[1]) was a 12th-century Yazidi saint. The Mam Rashan Shrine on Mount Sinjar was built in honor of him.[2][3]
| Pir Mehmed Reshan | |
|---|---|
Lord of the rain and protector of harvest | |
 View of the shrine of Pir Mehmed Rashan, adjacent to Maqlub Mountain near Bardarash | |
| Other names | Şêr Memê Reşan ('Lion Memê Reşan') |
| Venerated in | Yazidism |
| Animals | Patron of cats[4] |
| Mount | Lion; In Yazidi religious texts, Memê Reşan is called Şêr Memê Reşan ('Lion Memê Reşan'), because there is a storyline about Memê Reşan, who, to show his power, saddled a stone, which then turned into a lion.[5] |
| Region | Kurdistan |
| Ethnic group | Kurds (Yazidis) |
As a patron saint of agriculture, he is considered to be the protector of harvests and bringer of rain. His feast is celebrated in spring. There is a shrine dedicated to him at Lalish. Also, a shrine that is claimed as his tomb is situated behind Mount Maqlub near Bardarash, Iraq.[6] During times of drought, special ceremonies are held at sites dedicated to him to pray for rain and blessing of cultivated land.[7]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ "Reconstruction of the Yazidi Mam Rashan Shrine". Culture in Crisis. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
- ^ Pirbari, Dimitri V.; Mossaki, Nodar Z. (2022). "A Yezidi Manuscript – Mišūr of Pir Amar Qubaysi, its study and critical analysis". Eurasian Arabic Studies. 5 (3): 66–87. doi:10.26907/2619-1261.2022.5.3.66-87. ISSN 2619-1261.
- ^ Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written : categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts : with samples of oral and written religious texts and with audio and video samples on CD-ROM. Wiesbaden. p. 350. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kreyenbroek, Philip (1995). Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9004-3. OCLC 31377794.
- ^ Fobbe, Sean; Navrouzov, Natia; Hopper, Kristen; Khudida Burjus, Ahmed; Philip, Graham; Nawaf, Maher G; Lawrence, Daniel; Walasek, Helen; Birjandian, Sara; Ali, Majid Hassan; Rashidani, Salim (2019-08-02). "Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis".
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