Khanna Omarkhali

Khanna Omarkhali, also Khanna Usoyan (Kurdish: Xana Omerxalî; Russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also Ханна Рзаевна Усоян; * 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR) is a Kurdish[1] religion researcher[2] She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, is considered as an expert in Yezidism[3] and currently works as a scholar at the University of Göttingen.[4] Her main work is Yazidism - from the Depths of Millennia.[5] Omarkhali is Yazidi.[1]

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Footnotes

  1. "Jesiden suchen ihre Identität" (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  2. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen, 2014.
  3. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen S. 46
  4. Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq? - National Geographic News
  5. Омархали Х. Йезидизм: Из глубины тысячелетий. — СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. — 2005. — 192 с. ISBN 5-288-03621-7

Selected works (English titles)

  • Omarkhali Kh. On the Structure of the Yezidi Clan and Tribal System and its Terminology among the Yezidis of the Caucasus // Journal of Kurdish Studies. — 2008. — Vol.6. — p. 104-119. ISSN 1370-7205
  • Some Reflections on Concepts of Time in Yezidism, 2009 (co-author)
  • Kurdish Reader. Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji: With Kurdish-English Glossaries and Grammatical Sketch Harrassowitz, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 282 pages.
  • Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream - Volume 68 of Studies in Oriental Religions, ISSN 0340-6792, 2014.
  • "The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447108560. 2017.

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