Adi ibn Musafir
ʻAdī ibn Musāfir | |
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The sarcophagus of Sheikh Adi | |
| Born | 1072–1078 Bait Far, Abbasid Caliphate (present-day Beqaa Valley, Lebanon) |
| Died | 1162 |
| Resting place | Lalish, Iraq |
| Occupation | Adawi sheikh |
| Era | Late Abbasid |
| Predecessor | None |
| Successor | Sakhr Abu l-Barakat |
| Family | Umayyad dynasty |
| Part of a series on the Yazidi religion |
| Yazidism |
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Adi ibn Musafir (Kurdish: شیخادی, romanized: Şîxadî, Arabic: عَدِيُّ بْنُ مُسَافِرْ; born 1072–1078, died 1162) was a Sunni Muslim sheikh who founded the Adawiyya order. He is also considered a Yazidi saint. The Yazidis consider him as an avatar of Tawûsî Melek (the "Peacock Angel"). His tomb at Lalish, Iraq is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage. He was an Arab from the Umayyad dynasty. He had distant Kurdish heritage as a direct descendant of Marwan II, who was born to a Kurdish mother.