The shrine of Sultan Sahak, near the Perdivar Bridge in Sheykh Hasan, Kermanshah Province, Iran, marks the site associated with the teaching of Sultan Sahak, the figure Yarsani theology reveres as the manifestation that opened the current cycle of its religious history. It is one of several pilgrimage shrines in Yarsanism's Zagros heartland, alongside the tomb of Baba Yadgar and the tombs of Pir Benjamin and Pir Musi in Kerend-e Gharb. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Type of SiteSourced to the subject's own account Type of Site DetailTwentieth century ethnographic fieldwork on the Yarsan documents Perdivar drawing pilgrims from across the community's different khandans, the hereditary lineages that structure Yarsani religious life, evidence scholars have cited for the persistence of the community's devotional geography through periods of state pressure on non-Islamic Iranian minorities. 2 PilgrimageMajor pilgrimage destination today 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountAn active pilgrimage destination for Yarsanis, one of several shrines visited across the Zagros heartland. Origins
RegionSourced to the subject's own accountSheykh Hasan, near the Perdivar Bridge, Kermanshah Province, Iran 1 Connections
Contained In
Source Ahl-e Haqq (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. Ahl-e Haqq (Wikipedia)
WikipediaOriginated In: Persia, Stored region property on this entity, cited to this source: Sheykh Hasan, near the Perdivar Bridge, Kermanshah Province, IranView the Source 2. The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Community
M. Reza Hamzeh'ee, Klaus Schwarz Verlag (Islamkundige Untersuchungen, Bd. 138), 1990
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