"God First and Last". Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Abbreviations [Seite 8]
3 - Preface [Seite 10]
4 - Acknowledgements [Seite 12]
5 - Terminology and Transcription [Seite 14]
6 - Introduction [Seite 16]
6.1 - General [Seite 16]
6.2 - History of the Study [Seite 17]
6.3 - The Gurani Tradition [Seite 20]
6.4 - Aspects of the Y?ri World-view [Seite 21]
6.5 - Aims and methods [Seite 22]
6.6 - The hymns in book form: collections of texts [Seite 22]
7 - Chapter One: the Religious Background [Seite 24]
7.1 - The Indo-Iranian Religion: some relevant aspects [Seite 24]
7.2 - Zoroastrianism in Western Iran [Seite 28]
7.3 - Roman Mithraism and the ancient Western Iranian religion [Seite 31]
7.4 - Hellenistic cults [Seite 32]
7.5 - Gnostic Movements of late Antiquity, Manichaeism [Seite 33]
7.6 - Christianity [Seite 33]
7.7 - Islam [Seite 34]
7.8 - Yezidism [Seite 40]
7.9 - Alevism [Seite 44]
8 - Chapter Two: The Y?res?n Community and its SocialOrganisation [Seite 46]
8.1 - Languages [Seite 46]
8.2 - Geography [Seite 48]
8.3 - 'Caste', ritual functions, social institutions [Seite 51]
9 - Chapter Three: Mythical and Factual History [Seite 58]
9.1 - Mythical History [Seite 58]
9.2 - Factual History [Seite 73]
10 - Chapter Four: The Religious Universe [Seite 88]
10.1 - Aspects of the Y?ri Worldview [Seite 88]
10.2 - Divine and Great Beings [Seite 100]
10.3 - The Dowres [Seite 107]
10.4 - Eschatology [Seite 111]
11 - Chapter Five: Ritual and Observance [Seite 112]
11.1 - Music [Seite 112]
11.2 - The Jam [Seite 112]
11.3 - The Nazr [Seite 116]
11.4 - The Niy?z or Shokr?ne [Seite 118]
11.5 - Sar Sepordan [Seite 118]
11.6 - Feasts and Fasts [Seite 124]
11.7 - Funerary observances [Seite 128]
11.8 - Other observances [Seite 129]
11.9 - Y?ri Observances and Twelver Shi'ite influences [Seite 130]
12 - Chapter Six: Religious Narratives and Sacred Texts [Seite 132]
12.1 - Texts and storylines [Seite 132]
12.2 - The Form of the Kal?ms [Seite 133]
12.3 - Texts and Performance [Seite 134]
12.4 - Texts and Religious Knowledge [Seite 136]
12.5 - Collections of Kal?ms [Seite 138]
12.6 - The Perdiwari Kal?ms [Seite 140]
12.7 - The role of the kal?ms in religious life [Seite 145]
13 - APPENDIX 1: Extracts from the 'Exegesis' of Sayyed Wali [Seite 148]
13.1 - [On Creation] [Seite 148]
13.2 - [The History of Religions] [Seite 150]
13.3 - [The Dowres] [Seite 151]
14 - APPENDIX 2: Views from Iraqi communities [Seite 156]
14.1 - Interview with Sayyed Khalil ?gh?b?b K?ka'i, Iraqi Kurdistan [Seite 156]
14.2 - Beliefs of the Perdiwari Community, near Halabja [Seite 160]
15 - APPENDIX 3: Another View of Y?ri. Sayyed Khalil?linezh?d from Sahne [Seite 164]
16 - APPENDIX 4: Authoritative Muslim Comments on Y?ri [Seite 183]
17 - APPENDIX 5: Kal?ms in recent compilations [Seite 185]
18 - Bibliography [Seite 188]
19 - Index [Seite 196]