The Yazidi Book of Revelation (Kitêba Cilwe in Kurdish; also transliterated as Kitab Al Jilwah) is one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion, the other being the Yazidi Black Book (Mishefa Reş in Kurdish). It is claimed that the original text of the Book of Revelation is kept in the Yazidi village of Ba'idn and the original text of the Yazidi Black Book is kept in the village of Qasr 'tzz at-Din.
Scholars generally agree that the manuscripts of both books published in 1911 and 1913 were forgeries written by non-Yazidis in response to Western travelers’ and scholars’ interest in the Yazidi religion but do reflect authentic Yezidi traditions. The real core texts of the religion that exist today are the hymns known as qawls.
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