Talk:Lalish

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HELLO EVRYONE, BY THE WAY I WAS VISITED THIS PLACE BEFORE 20 Years " LALISH " and its increadable place and there is a big deep civilazation there no one know about it , and there is a secret place too, i was read about it in some of Assyran Old books but know one know where is it and how to go there its close to the mauntin infront of lalish on the south east , Thank you Dr. Jaluino Caratsia / Eygpt

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Someone recently made this edit: [1] This edit provided much more content than this article has now, although it was is Arabic. Perhaps we should keep this edit and have someone translate this page. KJS77 22:30, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Sheikh Adi

"Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, founder of the Kurdish pre-Islamic religion Yazidi."

(As of this revision.)

Either he founded the religion (the article on the Yazidi does credit him as the "founder") and it is not pre-Islamic, but rather has ancient pre-Islamic roots... Or he was, as described in his own entry, a "reformer" rather than a founder.

This could be a matter of nuanced semantic distinctions but, regardless, this sentence makes no sense as it stands. I'll leave the edit to someone who actually knows their Yazidi from their Yarsan, however.

76.224.35.66 18:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I boldly made the change to "reformer" based on my knowledge of the evidence. Now I am not so sure, because the Yazidi Origins says that Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir founded the religion, which was subsequently strongly influenced by the pre-Islamic cultural traditions after his death. So from that point of view it does make sense that he was the founder, but that the religion has strong pre-Islamic influences ("roots" may or may not be the right word). On the other hand the page on Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir calls him a reformer -- and did so before I made any edits on that page. I think that I will not make any more changes. Someone with deeper historical knowledge will surely come along eventually. --Ben Best 20:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Whoever knows enough about Sheikh Adi to work on this article may also want to address the issue of his name being inconsistently transcribed in this article. Although most of tecarticle’s references to him are using a transcription-system that spells his name as “Sheikh Adi”, one of the articke’s references to him is using a less popular, more technical transcription-system that spells his name as “Şêx Adî” instead. (Same person, different spellings ... this ought to be fixed.) Kate Gladstone - http://learn.to/handwrite (talk) 04:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)