Khanna Omarkhali

Khanna Omarkhali, also Khanna Usoyan (Kurdish: Xana Omerxalî‎; Russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also: Ханна Рзаевна Усоян; * 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR) is a Kurdish[1] religion researcher[2] She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, is considered as an expert in Yezidism[3] and currently works as a scholar at the University of Göttingen.[4] Her main work is Yazidism - from the Depths of Millennia.[5] Omarkhali is Yazidi.[1]

Sources

• The homepage of Omarkhali at Göttingen University

Footnotes

1. "Jesiden suchen ihre Identität" (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2020.
2. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen, 2014.
3. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen S. 46
4. Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq? - National Geographic News
5. Омархали Х. Йезидизм: Из глубины тысячелетий. — СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. — 2005. — 192 с. ISBN 5-288-03621-7

Selected works (English titles)

• Omarkhali Kh. On the Structure of the Yezidi Clan and Tribal System and its Terminology among the Yezidis of the Caucasus // Journal of Kurdish Studies. — 2008. — Vol.6. — p. 104-119. ISSN 1370-7205
• Some Reflections on Concepts of Time in Yezidism, 2009 (co-author)
• Kurdish Reader. Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji: With Kurdish-English Glossaries and Grammatical Sketch Harrassowitz, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 282 pages.
• Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream - Volume 68 of Studies in Oriental Religions, ISSN 0340-6792, 2014.
• "The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447108560. 2017.