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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