[1] Unlike the other major religions of the Near East, Yazidism does not have a standardized canon of religious texts, since religious knowledge is traditionally transmitted orally.
[2] Some of the largest text collections of Yazidi literature have been compiled by Philip G. Kreyenbroek (2005)[3] and Khanna Omarkhali (2017).
[5] This section contains a comprehensive list of Yazidi oral religious texts as compiled by Omarkhali (2017).
[4] Yazidi oral religious poetry can be categorized into the following categories.
Some representative samples of Yazidi oral religious poetry transcribed and compiled by Khanna Omarkhali (2017) include the following.