“God First and Last”. Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran: Volume 1: Religious Traditions by Philip G. Kreyenbroek

Cover
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Terminology and Transcription
Introduction
	General
	History of the Study
	The Gurani Tradition
	Aspects of the Yāri World-view
	Aims and methods
	The hymns in book form: collections of texts
Chapter One: the Religious Background
	The Indo-Iranian Religion: some relevant aspects
	Zoroastrianism in Western Iran
	Roman Mithraism and the ancient Western Iranian religion
	Hellenistic cults
	Gnostic Movements of late Antiquity, Manichaeism
	Christianity
	Islam
	Yezidism
	Alevism
Chapter Two: The Yāresān Community and its SocialOrganisation
	Languages
	Geography
	‘Caste’, ritual functions, social institutions
Chapter Three: Mythical and Factual History
	Mythical History
	Factual History
Chapter Four: The Religious Universe
	Aspects of the Yāri Worldview
	Divine and Great Beings
	The Dowres
	Eschatology
Chapter Five: Ritual and Observance
	Music
	The Jam
	The Nazr
	The Niyāz or Shokrāne
	Sar Sepordan
	Feasts and Fasts
	Funerary observances
	Other observances
	Yāri Observances and Twelver Shi’ite influences
Chapter Six: Religious Narratives and Sacred Texts
	Texts and storylines
	The Form of the Kalāms
	Texts and Performance
	Texts and Religious Knowledge
	Collections of Kalāms
	The Perdiwari Kalāms
	The role of the kalāms in religious life
APPENDIX 1: Extracts from the ‘Exegesis’ of Sayyed Wali
	[On Creation]
	[The History of Religions]
	[The Dowres]
APPENDIX 2: Views from Iraqi communities
	Interview with Sayyed Khalil Āghābāb Kāka’i, Iraqi Kurdistan
	Beliefs of the Perdiwari Community, near Halabja
APPENDIX 3: Another View of Yāri. Sayyed KhalilĀlinezhād from Sahne
APPENDIX 4: Authoritative Muslim Comments on Yāri
APPENDIX 5: Kalāms in recent compilations
Bibliography
Index