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Social structure

Ezidi Caste System – Şêx, Pîr & Mirîd

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

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Shex Fexredin, author of more than 11000 Qewls
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Şemsanî

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,

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