Note 112 — Chapter I · The Religious Origin of the Yezidis

Al-Der-Al-Makn‘un fi-l-Miater Al-Maḍiyat min Al-ḳerun, “Šeiḫ ‘Adi,” quoted by M. N. Siouffi, Journal Asiatique, 1885, p. 81.

Yaḳut (vol. IV, p. 374) also regards Šeiḫ ‘Adi an orthodox Mohammedan; “Šeiḫ ‘Adi bn Musafir Aš-Šafe‘e, šeiḫ of the Kurds and their Imam.” ‘Adi’s orthodoxy is seen also in his writing. He wrote ‘Itiḳad Ahl Al-Sunna “Belief of the Sunnites,” the Wasaya “Consuls to the Cailifs,” and two odds both of them mystic in their conception. They are all preserved in the Berlin Library; cf. Clement Huart, History of Arabic Literature, p. 273.