Peter Lamborn Wilson has traveled and worked in India and Persia, including Iranian Kurdistan (1968-1980), where he studied the historical and mystical dimensions of Sufism with many great Sufi masters. In the 1980s, he produced a series of biweekly radio broadcasts known as the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on WBAI-FM (NYC). The author of more than 60 books and monographs, he lives in the Hudson Valley.

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Preface: Who Are the Yezidis?
Introduction
1 Books
2 Cosmogony
3 The Delirium of Origins
4 Sheikh Adi and the Sufis
5 The Redemption of Satan
6 Angelology PeaAng.indd
7 Ritual
8 Symbolique
9 Color and Alchemy
10 Esoteric Antinomianism
11 Legend and Life of the Caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya
12 Poems of the Caliph Yazid
Appendix: India
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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