Today we’re looking at the Yarsanis, or the Ahl-i Haqq, another small syncretic religious minority that is active mostly among Kurds in western Iran and eastern Iraq. With only at most about three million of them in the world and pressure from Islamist extremists on one side and the Iranian government on the other, they’re struggling to maintain their u…
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