SURA MIHBETÊ, THE IDEA OF LOVE IN THE YEZIDI COSMOGONY AND THE DISCUSSION ON THE ONTOLOGY OF LOVE IN EARLY SUFISM.
Artur Rodziewicz.
In the very first stages of the cosmogony described in the Yezidi sacred hymns, quewles, except God and the Pearl there is also Love mentioned. It is consistently and exclusively expressed by a word mihbet. This consequence allows to assume that the author or authors of the hymns deliberately selected the term. In my paper I will try to post a question whether in the Yezidi quewles we are dealing with reflexes of the old ongoing controversy among the first Sufis such as Mansur al-Hallaj, Abu al-Ḥasan al-Daylami or Ruzbihan Baqli on the theological status of Love? The controversy that was also connected with the debate over the terminological distinction between ishq (arab.)/ eshq (pers.) and mahabba (arab.)/ mohabbat (pers.) This question seems to be important also for the reason that the codifier of the Yezidism, Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, who is believed to be the author of some important quewles, before settling in Lalish, had been studing in Baghdad and had been a disciple of Ahmad al-Ghazali – the author of Sawaneh, the oldest Persian Sufi treatise on love. [1]
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