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    Adī ibn Musāfir (Kurdish: شێخ ئادی, romanized: Şêx Adî, Arabic: الشيخ عدي بن مسافر born 1072–1078, died 1162) was a Sunni Muslim sheikh who is also considered...
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    manifestations. One of the important figures of Yazidism is Sheikh 'Adī ibn Musafir. Sheikh 'Adī ibn Musafir settled in the valley of Laliş (some 58 kilometres...
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    holiest temple of the Yazidis. It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith. The temple is above the town...
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    80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Mosul. In Shekhan is the shrine of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir at Lalish. In the early 1900s most of the settled population of...
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  • Sheikh Hasan ibn SheikhAdī II (Kurdish: Şêx Hesen or Şêx Sin) is a holy and historical figure in that is revered in Yazidism and considered the physical...
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    in 1838 and ascribed the authorship of the Yazidi Black Book to Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. It is believed that the content of the Yazidi Black Book is a fusion...
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  • bassist Adi Mešetović (born 1997), Bosnian swimmer Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1072-1078–1162), Kurdish sheikh Adi Nalić (born 1997), Bosnian footballer Adi Nes...
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    Yazidis believe that the founder or reformer of their religion, Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir, was an incarnation of Tawûsî Melek. In Yazidi religious folk beliefs...
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    to Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. This was echoed by R. H. W. Empson in 1928 who moreover stated that the book was written by Sheikh Adi to Fakhr ad-Din ibn Adi...
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    Sheikh Sharaf ad-Dīn ibn al-Hasan (Kurdish: شه‌رفه‌دین, romanized: Şerfedîn) was the son and religious heir of al-Hasan ibnAdī and thus head of the ‘Adawiyya...
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