Introduction This article offers a detailed list of the currently documented Ezidi tribes from all regions and countries where Ezidis reside, and may undergo updates or expansions as more documents and data come to surface. The article is also supplemented
Introduction Ezidi community is organized in a caste system, which comprises of three castes. Two of them being priestly castes, namely the Şêx caste (Kurdish: “Çîna Şêxa”, “Şêxanî”, “Şêxîtî”) and the Pîr caste (Kurdish: “Çîna Pîra”, “Pîranî”). These two castes
Şemsanî Şemsanî, also occasionally known as Zerzanî, are one of the three principal endogamous and hereditary clans that constitute the Şêx caste, alongside the Adanî and the Qatanî. The Şêxs are one of the two priestly castes alongside the Pîrs,
