- Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
Shaykh ‘Adī ibn Musāfir al-Umawī (Arabic: عدي بن مسافر الاموي, Kurdish Şêx Adî (IPA|/ʃex ɑdi/) (died 1162), a descendant ofUmayyad Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam, was born in the 1070s in theBeqaa Valley of present-dayLebanon .Citation
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title =God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition
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accessdate =] TheYazidi consider him anavatar of Tawûsê Melek, the "Peacock Angel". His tomb atLalish ,Iraq is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.Citation
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title =The Yezidis
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accessdate =]Şêx Adî spent much of his early life in
Baghdad . To attain a sufi life and seclude himself he sought a quiet haven inKurdistan , an area strongly associated with indigenous Iranian religious movements such asZoroastrianism .Despite his desire for seclusion, he impressed the local population with his
asceticism andmiracle s. [cite web | title = Yezidi Reformer: Sheikh Adi | work = The Truth about the Yezidis | publisher = YezidiTruth.org | date = 2007 | url = http://www.yeziditruth.org/yezidi_reformer_sheikh_adi | accessdate = 2007-08-16 ]uccession
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