Dasini

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Dasini or Dasiniyya, Tasini is a Kurdish yazidi tribe and Ethnonym of Yazidis. The tribe resided near Mosul, Duhok, Sheikhan, Sinjar and all the way to the west bank of Greater Zab river.[1][2][3]

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The Yazidis call themselves Dāsin, Dasnī, Dasenī, plurally as Dawāsīn, duāsin, dawāšim, the origin of the name probably comes from an old Nestorian diocese.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b M. Th. Houtsma, 1993, E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936: Volume 8 - Page 1164, Brill
  2. ^ Ali, Majid Hassan (1 November 2019). "Genocidal Campaigns during the Ottoman Era: The Firmān of Mīr-i-Kura against the Yazidi Religious Minority in 1832–1834". Genocide Studies International. 13 (1): 77–91. doi:10.3138/gsi.13.1.05. ISSN 2291-1847. S2CID 208688229.
  3. ^ Ghalib, Sabah Abdullah (13 October 2011). The Emergence of Kurdism with Special Reference to the Three Kurdish Emirates within the Ottoman Empire 1800-1850 (PhD thesis). pp. 52–53. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021.