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CONTENTS
Chapter Page
  Introduction—The Origin of the Manuscript 11
  Notes on the Introduction 22
PART I. THE TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIC TEXT
  Preface, in the Name of the Most Compassionate God 29
  I. Al-Jilwah—The Revelation 30
  II. Mashaf Res—The Black Book 36
  III. Appendix to Part I. 53
  IV. The Poem in Praise of Šeiḫ ‘Adi 70
  V. The Principal Prayer of the Yezidis 73
  VI. Seven Classes of Yezidis 75
  VII. The Articles of Faith 77
  Notes on Part I. 83
PART II. THE CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF YEZIDISM
I. The Religious Origin of the Yezidis 89
  I. The Yezidi Myth 89
  II. The Christian Tradition 96
  III. The Speculative Theories of Western Orientalists 103
  IV. The Dogmatic View of Mohammedan Scholars and the Writer's Own Explanation 118
  Notes on Part I. 138