Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir

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Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir al Umawi (Arabic: عدي بن مسافر الاموي) reformed the Yezidi faith of the Kurdish people in 1162. The Yezidis consider him an avatar of Melek Taus. His tomb at Lalish, Iraq is a focal point of Yezidi pilgrimage.

Sheikh Adi was reportedly born in the Beqaa valley of the present-day Lebanon and spent much of his early life in Baghdad. To attain a Sufi life and to seclude himself he sought a quiet haven in Kurdistan, an area strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism. Despite his desire for seclusion, he impressed the local population with his asceticism and miracles^[1].

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