Monotheism

====Yazidism====
{{Main|Yazidism}}
God in Yazidism created the world and entrusted it into the care of seven [[Holy]] Beings, known as [[Angel]]s.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014">{{cite book |author1-last=Asatrian |author1-first=Garnik S. |author1-link=Garnik Asatrian |author2-last=Arakelova |author2-first=Victoria |year=2014 |title=The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World |chapter=Part I: The One God - Malak-Tāwūs: The Leader of the Triad |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1RsBAAAQBAJ |location=[[Abingdon, Oxfordshire]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |series=Gnostica |pages=1–28 |doi=10.4324/9781315728896 |isbn=978-1-84465-761-2 |oclc=931029996}}</ref><ref name="Birgül">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ql4BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|title=The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion|last=Açikyildiz|first=Birgül|date=2014-12-23|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9780857720610|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Allison 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |author-last=Allison |author-first=Christine |date=25 January 2017 |title=The Yazidis |url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-254 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |location=[[Oxford]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.254 |isbn=9780199340378 |doi-access=free |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311065225/https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-254 |archive-date=11 March 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=15 May 2021}}</ref> The Yazidis believe in a divine Triad.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/><ref name="Allison 2017"/><ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2003">{{cite journal |author1-link=Garnik Asatrian |date=January 2003 |editor-last=Asatrian |editor-first=Garnik S. |title=Malak-Tāwūs: The Peacock Angel of the Yezidis |journal=[[Iran and the Caucasus]] |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] in collaboration with the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies ([[Yerevan]]) |volume=7 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–36 |doi=10.1163/157338403X00015 |issn=1609-8498 |eissn=1573-384X |jstor=4030968 |lccn=2001227055 |oclc=233145721 |author1-last=Asatrian |author1-first=Garnik S. |author2-last=Arakelova |author2-first=Victoria}}</ref> The original, hidden God of the Yazidis is considered to be [[Deus otiosus|remote and inactive]] in relation to his creation, except to contain and bind it together within his essence.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/> His first [[Emanationism|emanation]] is the Angel [[Melek Taus|Melek Taûs]] ({{Lang|ku|Tawûsê Melek}}), who functions as the ruler of the world and leader of the other Angels.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/><ref name="Allison 2017"/><ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2003"/> The second [[Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)|hypostasis]] of the divine Triad is the [[Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir|Sheikh 'Adī ibn Musafir]]. The third is [[Sultan Ezid]]. These are the three hypostases of the one God. The identity of these three is sometimes blurred, with Sheikh 'Adī considered to be a manifestation of Tawûsê Melek and vice versa; the same also applies to Sultan Ezid.<ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/> Yazidis are called ''{{Lang|ku|Miletê Tawûsê Melek}}'' ("the nation of Tawûsê Melek").<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Asatrian|first1=Garnik S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1RsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT23|title=The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World|last2=Arakelova|first2=Victoria|date=2014-09-03|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-54428-9|language=en}}</ref>

God is referred to by Yazidis as ''{{Lang|ku|Xwedê}}'', {{Lang|ku|Xwedawend}}, ''{{Lang|ku|Êzdan}}'', and ''{{Lang|ku|Pedsha}}'' ('King'), and, less commonly, ''{{Lang|ku|Ellah}}'' and ''{{Lang|ku|Heq}}''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kreyenbroek|first=Philip G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTQqAQAAMAAJ&q=Ancient+iranian|title=Yezidism: its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition|date=1995|location=[[Lewiston, New York]] |publisher=[[Edwin Mellen Press]]|isbn=978-0-7734-9004-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Omarkhali, Khanna|title=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|year=2017|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-10856-0|oclc=994778968}}</ref><ref name="Birgül" /><ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Omarkhali |first=Khanna |title=Names of God and Forms of Address to God in Yezidism. With the Religious Hymn of the Lord |journal=Manuscripta Orientalia International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research |volume=15 |number=2 |date=December 2009 |url=https://www.academia.edu/7918282 |language=en |access-date=2023-02-09 |archive-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032900/https://www.academia.edu/7918282 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to some Yazidi hymns (known as ''Qewls''), God has 1,001 names, or 3,003 names according to other Qewls.<ref name="Kreyenbroek 2005">{{cite book | last=Kreyenbroek | first=Philip | author-link=Philip G. Kreyenbroek | title=God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition | publisher=Harrassowitz | publication-place=Wiesbaden | year=2005 | isbn=978-3-447-05300-6 | oclc=63127403}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45N4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|title=Deutsche Yeziden: Geschichte, Gegenwart, Prognosen|last=Kartal|first=Celalettin|date=2016-06-22|publisher=Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag|isbn=9783828864887|language=de}}</ref>