Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

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by Gerard Russell


  Uniate church, 185, 210, 259

  United Nations, sanctions by, 31

  Universal Mind or Intellect, 123, 125, 127, 145, 268

  Universal Soul, 127, 145

  Utnapishtim, 3

  Vansleb, Johann, 196, 198

  Virgin Mary, 102, 130, 182, 258

  Vishtaspa, 97

  Wafd Party, 198

  Wahba, Youssef, 198

  Wanat, battle of, 226

  Warner Brothers, 82

  Watani, 202

  West Bank, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 177

  conquest of, 160, 176

  Palestinians and, 148

  White Days, 21, 21–22

  Wolff, Joseph, 154

  Woolley, Leonard, 4

  Wordsworth, William: paganism and, xii

  World of Darkness, 18

  World Zoroastrian Organisation, 108

  Wotan, xix

  Xerxes, 81, 84

  Yahweh, 45

  Yaish, Adli, 164

  Yazd, 75, 76, 81, 107, 108

  dakhma in, 104 (photo)

  fire temple at, 109

  photo of, 76

  Zoroastrians in, 99, 100, 101, 102, 105, 109

  Yazidis, ix, x, 52, 53, 58, 59, 64, 67, 118, 144

  attacks on, xxiv, 70–71, 129

  beliefs of, 39–40, 42, 43, 54, 276

  challenge for, 72–73

  Christians and, 41

  cleanliness of, 273

  creation and, 42

  education of, 71

  fish and, 54

  folklore of, 276

  handshake and, 48, 73

  identity of, 66, 274

  Kurds and, 40–41, 61, 65–66, 70, 71–72, 274

  Melek Taoos and, 60–61, 63

  missionary work and, 69

  Mithraists and, 47

  Muslims and, 39, 60

  Ottomans and, 71

  photo of, 60

  prayer/fasting by, 43

  reading/writing and, 42

  refuge for, 41, 279

  reincarnation and, 44

  rights of, 271

  scripture of, 43

  shrines of, 41, 66

  sun and, 44, 65

  Yemeni, 138, 139, 264

  Yoannis, Father, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216

  Yohannan bar Penkaye, 64

  Yom Kippur, Samaritans and, 169

  Zaghloul, Saad, 198, 200

  Zagros Mountains, 84

  Zamalek Island, 188–189

  Zarathustra, 92, 97, 102, 110

  immortality and, 77, 79

  moral law and, 80

  Zendan-e-Soleyman, 87, 92, 106

  temple at, 88 (photo)

  Zenobia, 23

  Zoroastrian priests, 79, 90

  Zoroastrianism, 46, 52, 88

  conversion to, 109, 110

  free choice and, 78

  human history and, 84–85

  Iranians and, 89

  liberal interpretation of, 108

  modern, 109–111

  Muslim practices of, 89–90

  signs/emblems of, 81, 82

  Zoroastrians, 8, 60, 61, 62, 64, 77, 81, 83, 86, 87, 91, 96

  animals and, 78–79

  Baha’i and, 107

  in Britain, 106, 107, 108

  cleanliness of, 101, 104, 105

  customs of, 99–100

  disrespect/hostility for, 80

  encountering, 109

  Gabri language and, 76

  Hafez and, 97, 99

  Jesus and, 77

  monotheism and, xxi

  Parsee, 106

  talking with, 111

  wine and, 97

  Zulfikar (photographer), 234, 237, 239, 240, 242

  on Kalasha, 255

 

 

 


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