Amadin

Sheikh
Amadin
Amadîn
Other name‘Emad ad-Dīn
Known forPatron saint of stomach pains
FatherSheikh Shems
FamilyShemsani lineage

Amadin or ‘Emad ad-Dīn (Kurdish: Amadîn) was a 13th-century Yazidi holy figure who, according to Yazidi tradition, founded the Bahdinan emirate.

Family & Religious Role

Amadin was one of the nine sons of Sheikh Shems and progenitors of one of the Yazidi Sheikh sublineages. Sheikhs from his lineage live in Iraq and Armenia, and the religious title of Babê Gavan is given to this lineage. He is associated with healing stomach pains. In addition, members of the Amadîn lineage (the Sheikhs of Amadîn) are strictly forbidden from eating rooster.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 Dîma, Pîr (January 2011). Êzdîyên Serhedê: Sedsala XIX- destpêka sedsala XX. Istanbul: Weşanxaneya Do / Do Yayınevi. pp. 39, 48. ISBN 978-605-4427-01-7.
  3. ↑ Kreyenbroek, Philip (1995). Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9004-3. OCLC 31377794.
  4. ↑ Omarkhali, Khanna. The Yezidi religious textual tradition from oral to written : categories, transmission, scripturalisation and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts : with audio and video samples on CD-ROM. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 1002063785.