Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir

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 of Umayyad Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam, was born in the 1070s in the Beqaa Valley of present-day Lebanon.Citation
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Şêx Adî spent much of his early life in Baghdad. To attain a sufi life and seclude himself he sought a quiet haven in Kurdistan, an area strongly associated with indigenous Iranian religious movements such as Zoroastrianism.

Despite his desire for seclusion, he impressed the local population with his asceticism and miracles. [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 ]

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