Khanna Omarkhali
Xana Omerxalî
Other namesKhanna Usoyan
Academic background
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
Main interestsYazidis and Yazidism

Khanna Omarkhali, also known as Khanna Usoyan (Kurdish: Xana Omerxalî; Russian: Ханна Рзаевна Омархали, also Ханна Рзаевна Усоян; born 15 March 1981, Armenian SSR), is a Yezidi-Kurdish[1][2] religion researcher.[3]

Biography

She studied Iranian philology at the Saint Petersburg State University, from where she obtained a Ph.D. in 2006, as well as a BSc in 2002 and a MSc in 2004.[4] In 2005, she joined the University of Göttingen as an Academic Assistant in the DFG project “Cultural memory of the Yezidi community in Germany with regard to religious questions", from 2007 to 2010 she was a bursar of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 896/2 “Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder”, with the project “Yezidi Religious Texts: Their Theological Implications with some References to the Ahl-e Haqq Religious Tradition”. Between 2010 and 2017 she was a researcher in the Institute of Iranian Studies in Göttingen and responsible for Kurdish Studies program. From 2012 to 2017, she was also responsible for setting up of the Iranian and Kurdish Digital Audio Archive at the same Institute.[4] She is considered as an expert in Yezidism[5] and currently works as a scholar at the University of Göttingen.[6] One of her main works is Yazidism - from the Depths of Millennia.[7]

Khanna's main research covers religious minorities in Kurdistan, religion, orality and scripturalization in the Middle East, Yezidism (history, rituals, modern transformations), theological implications of the textual tradition of Yezidis, religious and spiritual authorities in transition, qualitative research in Religious studies and Kurdish dialectology, literature and culture.[4]

Khanna Omarkhali belongs to the Yezidi priestly caste of Pîrs and both her grandfathers are well-known "ulmdars" (i.e. experts in religious knowledge).[8]

Selected works (English titles)

See also

References

  1. ^ Omarkhali, Khanna (January 2014). "Jesiden suchen ihre Identität" (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  2. ^ Chyet, Michael (2013). "Review of Kurdish Reader. Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji, with Kurdish-English Glossaries and Grammatical Sketch". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 163 (1): 269. ISSN 0341-0137. JSTOR 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.163.1.0267.
  3. ^ Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c CERES, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien. "PD Dr. Khanna Omarkhali (Usoyan)". khk.ceres.rub.de (in German). Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  5. ^ Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien (Ausgabe 2/2014): Schwerpunkt: Die Geschichte von kurdischen Studien und Kurdologie. Nationale Methodologien und transnationale Verflechtungen S. 46
  6. ^ Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq? - National Geographic News
  7. ^ Омархали Х. Йезидизм: Из глубины тысячелетий. — СПб.: Издательский дом Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета. — 2005. — 192 с. ISBN 5-288-03621-7
  8. ^ Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written : categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts : with samples of oral and written religious texts and with audio and video samples on CD-ROM. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968.

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