Şêxûbekir
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| Member of the Heptad | |
| Venerated in | Yazidism |
| Region | Kurdistan |
| Ethnic group | Kurds (Yazidis) |
| Part of a series on the Yazidi religion |
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Şêxûbekir (Kurdish: Şêxûbekir);[1] also transliterated as Sheikhubekir, Sheikh Abu Bakr, Sheikh Obekr, or Sheikh Obekar, is a holy figure venerated in Yazidism. He was a close disciple of Sheikh Adi II ibn Abu'l Barakat and was a Feqîr, wearing the Xerqe and serving as the head of the dervishes.[2] He is considered an incarnation of 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.[3][4][5]
He is identified as the bearer and protector of Xerqe,[6] a holy black textile which symbolizes asceticism in Yazidism. He is in charge of the equilibrium between earth and heaven.[7] His brothers are Şêx Ebdilqadirê Rehmanî and Şêx Simayîlê Enzelî, who have their own separate Qatanî Sheikh branches.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pirbari, Dimitri; Shchedrovitsky, Dmitri (2016). Тайна жемчужины. Езидская теософия и космогония (in Russian). Tbilisi: Tbilisi Center for Yezidi Studies. pp. 124, 259. ISBN 978-5-906045-15-7. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion, Birgül Açikyildiz, 2014, pp. 208, ISBN 978-0-85772-061-0
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pirbari, Dimitri; Grigoriev, Stanislav. "Holy Lalish, 2008 (Ezidian temple Lalish in Iraqi Kurdistan)". p. 14.
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