Introduction
By Philip Kreyenbroek, Khanna Omarkhali Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):193-198 Whilst the study of “oral verbal art” in the literary sphere…
Early Zoroastrianism and Orality
Philip Kreyenbroek
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):199-210 Most readers of Oral Tradition may not be overly concerned with the oral transmission of premodern…
On the Edge between Literacy and Orality: Manuscripts and Performance of the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy
Alberto Cantera
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):211-50 1. Today’s Performance of the Long Liturgy The Long Liturgy (later LL) is the main Zoroastrian…
On the Problems of Studying Modern Zoroastrianism
Sarah Stewart
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):251-66 Arguably, the problems of studying modern Zoroastrianism are not dissimilar to those associated with the study…
Singing the Pain: Yezidi Oral Tradition and Sinjari Laments after ISIS
Eszter Spät
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):267-92 Our girls fell into the hands of the kafir1They sold our girls to strange countriesThis girl…
The Village Chronotope in the Genre of Iraqi Yezidi Wedding Songs
Allison Stuewe
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):293-308 Introduction Among the world’s roughly one million Yezidis, adherents of a monotheistic faith that does not…
The Yezidi Religious Music: A First Step in the Analysis of the Acoustic Shape of Qewls
Estelle Amy de la Bretèque, Khanna Omarkhali
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):309-30 1. Introduction: Types of Performances and Learning Techniques While the Yezidi religious textual tradition, including its…
The Religious Textual Heritage of the Yārsān (Ahl-e Haqq)
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):331-40 The Yārsān This paper will discuss the complex “textual” heritage of the Yārsān of western Iran…
Religious Musical Knowledge and Modes of Transmission among the Kurdish Ahl-e Haqq of Gurān
Partow Hooshmandrad
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):341-62 Introduction The great astronomer and social commentator Adam Frank says: “We are fundamentally storytellers . .…
“Let Me Tell You How it All Began”—A Creation Story Told by Nesimi Kılagöz from Dersim
Erdal Gezik
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):363-88 The circumstances when we met were far from ideal.1 It was in 2009, in a suburban…
Dancing the Text: Embodying the Sacred Orature in the Alevi Semah (Turkey)
Françoise Arnaud-Demir
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):389-406 In rural Turkey,1 as in many places around the world, dance in its most basic and…
Men of Speech: The ʿAjam Dervishes and Their Role in the Transmission of Popular Persian Narratives
Shahrokh Raei
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):407-18 A group of dervishes known as ʿAjam belonged originally to the dervishes without an order (bi-selsele).…
Mîrza Mihemed / Mirza Pamat: The Tales of the Fabled Hero in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Oral Sources
Alexey Lyavdansky
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):419-40 The field studies of Neo-Aramaic dialects that have proliferated recently have yielded many folklore texts.1 During…
“Metran Îsa! Do Not Stir Up Trouble, Trouble Is Bad”: A Kurdish Folk Song through a Christian Lens
Gulsuma Demir, Nikita Kuzin, Yulia Furman
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):441-62 Introduction: General Remarks and Plot In this paper, we would like to present a popular Kurdish…
