| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Maps of Research Area -- Terms & -- Acronyms -- A Note on Language -- Part One Background, Theory, and Design -- 1 Cultural and Historical Foundations of Ezidiness -- 1.1 Prelude to the Study -- 1.1.1 The Situation -- 1.1.2 Arrival in Ezidxan -- 1.1.3 Working in the Field -- 1.1.4 Purposes -- 1.2 Approaching the Subject Matter -- 1.2.1 Research Questions -- 1.2.2 Cultural Context -- 1.2.2.1 Language and Belief -- 1.2.2.2 Culture and Society -- 1.2.2.3 Naming Names: Yezidi, Yazidi, Jezidi, Yazeedee? Ezidi -- 1.2.3 Embracing the '-ness' -- 1.3 Historical and Political Context -- 1.3.1 A Brief History of Ezidis and Shingal -- 1.3.1.1 Ezidi Ethnogenesis -- 1.3.1.2 Shingal's Role and Identity -- 1.3.1.3 Expansion and Contraction -- 1.3.2 Ezidis in Modern Iraq -- 1.3.2.1 The 'Artificial Creation' of Iraq -- 1.3.2.2 The Detriment of Collectivisation and Arabisation -- 1.3.2.3 Ezidi Views of Saddam Hussein -- 1.3.3 Ezidis in the KRI -- 1.3.3.1 Ezidis Within and Without the KRI -- 1.3.3.2 From Arabisation to Kurdification -- 1.4 The Current Situation -- 1.4.1 Invasion and Creation: The Rise of Daesh -- 1.4.2 The Ezidi Experience: Genocide & -- Forced Migration -- 1.4.3 The Future of Iraq and Iraqi Identity after the Genocide -- 1.4.4 Now: Frozen Time of Ezidi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) -- 1.5 Structure of the Book -- 2 Of the Spoken, Of the Written -- 2.1 The Earliest Mentions -- 2.2 Western Categorisation -- 2.2.1 The First Academic Studies -- 2.2.2 The 'Sacred' Books -- 2.2.3 Subsequent Contributions -- 2.3 The First and Last Ethnographies of Shingali Ezidis -- 2.3.1 The Beautiful Vagueness -- 2.4 Incorporating Oral Tradition -- 2.4.1 'Yezidism' -- 2.4.2 Expansion and Incorporation -- 2.5 Recent Developments -- 2.5.1 Scholarship of the Diaspora -- 2.5.2 The Genocide in Scholarship.
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