Khanna Omarkhali

Khanna Omarkhali, also Khanna Usoyan (Kurdish: Xana Omerxalî; Russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also: Ханна Рзаевна Усоян; * 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR) is a religion researcher[1] and Orientalist of Yazidi descent.[2] She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, is considered as an expert in Yezidism[3] and currently works as a scholar at the University of Göttingen,[4] while continuing to hold lectures at the Oriental Studies Department of the Saint Petersburg State University.

She is known as one of the foremost researchers of Yazidism in the Russosphere. Her main work is Yazidism - from the Depths of Millennia.[5]

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  1. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen, 2014.
  2. She was born into a priest caste family - https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/jesiden-suchen-ihre-identit%C3%A4t-g%C3%B6ttinger-tageblatt-200914/495419.html
  3. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen S. 46
  4. Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq? - National Geographic News
  5. Омархали Х. Йезидизм: Из глубины тысячелетий. — СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. — 2005. — 192 с. ISBN 5-288-03621-7

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