Yari Religion in Iran

S. Behnaz Hosseini is a visiting research fellow at Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria in Canada as well as minority researcher, project coordinator, and conference organizer at the mobilecultures team affiliated with University of Vienna. She is an Honorary Fellow in the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin College. She is also a Middle East media analyst with Persian media. Dr. Hosseini has conducted extensive research on minorities in the Middle East and has worked with the United Nations as an expert consultant on ISIS crimes against religious minorities in Iraq. Her most recent publications are “The Jewish Diaspora after 1945: A Study of Jewish Communities in the Middle East and North Africa” (2020), “Temporary and Child Marriages in Iran and Afghanistan: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues” (Springer 2021), “Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women:The Experiences of Yazidi Survivors” (2020), and “Yārsān of Iran: Socio-Political Changes and Migration” (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). An earlier publication is “Forced Migration of Iraqi Religious Minorities in Austria” (2018). Currently she is working on a project about the migration of Iranian religious minorities.

Chapter 1. The Political and Juridical Erasure of Yārī and Yārsānians in Iran and Iraq.- Chapter 2. Common Roots of Hinduism and Yārsān (Goran) Beliefs.- chapter 3. An Ethnography of a Yārsān Diaspora Community’s Endurance in Kalardasht, Northern Iran.- Chapter 4. A Brief Study on the Most Influential Immigrations of the Yārsān Based on Kalāms and Historical Documents (from the 4th Century AH).- Chapter 5. Text Dating in Yārsān Studies: Dīwān-i Khān-i Almās and the “Prophecies of Darvīsh Ojāq,” Chapter 6. The Mystery of Essence and the Essence of Mystery: Yezidi and Yārsān Cosmogonies in the Light of the Kitab al-Tawasin./