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Landscapes of Resistance

Narratives around Sacred Places in Sinjar (Iraq) and the Islamic State’s Genocide against Yezidis

Av Benjamin Rassbach

Del 4 i serien Iran and the Caucasus Monographs

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On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the “Islamic State”. Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority’s shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In the aftermath of the genocide, stories of divine intervention into the defence bolstered land claims of serveral Kurdish political groups.Through extensive fieldwork in the region, I trace imaginaries of Sinjar as a landscape of resistance and a communal history of continuous persecution to current political disputes and attempts to construct a unified Yezidi identity.
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Benjamin Raßbach, Ph.D. (2024), Orient-Institute Beirut, is a postdoc researcher working on politics and traditions of Middle Eastern religious minorities, looking back on ten years of fieldwork experience. He studied at Philipps University Marburg and Leipzig University, and received his Ph.D. from Leipzig University.

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"Raßbach has undoubtedly authored a work that deserves a place on the shelf of anyone seriously engaged with the study of Yezidism – and especially those seeking a deeper understanding of the Yezidis of Sinjar." - Peter Nicolaus, in: International Journal of Yezidi Studies, 2 (2025), pp. 145-151 [DOI: 10.1555/yezidistudies/2/6/1/2025/145-151]

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