Shabak

plural Shabaks

1. A member of an ethnic group native to parts of Iraq which predominantly speaks an Iranic language called Shabaki and historically practices a religion similar to Alevism called Shabakism.

   So little is known with certainty about the Shabak 's religious beliefs that I will abstain from a detailed description; they seem comparable, however, to those of other groups with a Qizilbash background.

   2018, Anke Otter-Beaujean, Barbara Kellner-Heikele, Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, editors, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium “Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present”, Berlin, 14-17 April 1995, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 161

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1. Of or pertaining to the Shabaks or Shabakism.