Iraq / Kurdistan: 'Gate of Yezeedi Temple Sheikh Adi', John Ussher, 1865

Shaykh Adi ibn Musafir al-Umawi (Kurd, died 1162), a descendant of Umayyad Caliph Marwan ibn al-Hakam, was born in the 1070s in the Beqaa Valley of present-day Lebanon. Adi is said to have been born in the village of Bait Far, near Baalbek, where the house of his birth was in and is still the place of pious pilgrimage.

The Yazidi consider him an Avatar of Tawuse Melek, the 'Peacock Angel'. His tomb at Lalish, Iraq is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.

The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious community whose syncretic but ancient religion Yazidism is linked to Zoroastrianism and ancient Mesopotamian religions.They live primarily in the Nineveh Province of Iraq. Additional communities in Armenia, Georgia, and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s as a result of significant migration to Europe, especially to Germany. In Armenia, the Yazidis are recognized as a national group.

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