{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Devil_Worship_Joseph_Part_1_Preface/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Devil_Worship_Joseph_Part_1_Preface","id":"wikisource_Devil_Worship_Joseph_Part_1_Preface","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Devil_Worship_(Joseph)/Part_1/Preface","summary":null,"tags":["Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Subpages"],"text":"PREFACE\n\nIn the Name of the Most Compassionate God!\n\nWith the help of the Most High God, and under his direction, we write the history of the Yezidis, their doctrines, and the mysteries of their religion, as contained in their books, which reached our hand with their own knowledge and consent.\n\nIn the time of Al-Muktadir Billah, A. H. 295, there lived Mans\u00fbr-al-Hall\u00e2j, the woll-carder, and Sei\u1e2b 'Abd-al-K\u00e2dir of Jil\u00e2n. At that time, too, there appeared a man by the name of Seih 'Ad\u00ee, from the mountain of Hakkari, originally from the region of Aleppo or Baalbek. He came and dwelt in Mount Lali\u0161, near the city of Mosul, about nine hours distant from it. Some say he was of the people of Harr\u00e2n, and related to Marw\u00e2n ibn-al-Hakam. His full name is \u0160araf ad-D\u00een Ab\u00fb-l-Fad\u00e2\u00eel, 'Ad\u00ee bn Mus\u00e2fir bn Ismael bn Mousa bn Marw\u00e2n bn Al-Hasan bn Marw\u00e2n. He died A. H. 558 (A. D. 1162-63). His tomb is still visited; it is near Ba'adrei, one of the villages of Mosul, distant eleven hours. The Yezidis are the progeny of those who were the murids (disciples) of Seih 'Ad\u00ee. Some trace their origin to Yezid, others to Hasan-Al-Basri.","title":"Devil Worship (Joseph)/Part 1/Preface","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":199}