AHC - Kurds remain largely an ethnoreligous group like the Yezidi or Druze

The challenge is to have the ATL Kurds remain largely an ethnoreligous group along similar lines to the OTL Yezidi, Druze and Copts.

Options can range from practicing a form of Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism or Christianity and Islam to a possible variation of Yazdânism (including Yazidism), depending on whether one believes the latter to be the pre-Islamic native religion of the Kurds or either an Islamic sect or Islamized syncretic belief system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazdânism
 
Perhaps some sort of Manichaean Islam?
A major component will be a need to maintain themselves apart so something limiting outmarriage is needed.
 
Would it be possible for the ATL Kurds to be a proselytizing enthoreligous group like the Copts or the Alawites?
Except proselytising would make the ethno part redundant unless they recognise their religion as held only by a subset of their ethnos.
I notice in the Yazdani article that the Yezidi are often considered Kurds so I suspect you'll need your ethnoreligious Kurds to only be able to convert other people they consider Kurds.

Here's my idea:
We'll call this group Kurzini. Kurzini are only allowed to marry Kurzini or other Kurds. Marrying a nonKurzini Kurd however makes them officially "half-Kurzini" (or some similar term in their society) and their children have to marry Kurzini to be full Kurzini. Kurds who convert only become half Kurzini and need to marry Kurzini for full acceptance.
 
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The problem is, the Kurds are too big of a population in comparison to Druze or Yazidi's.

The Druze are not just one ethnic group. They were from various ethnicities from Egypt and the Levant sincs the reign of al Hakam.

As far as I know, the Yazidi's are Kurds as well. I could be wrong tho...
 
Honestly from what I understand the non-Muslim Kurds (primarily Yadizis and Kurds who mixed different religions) was a pretty significant part of the Kurdish population maybe even the majority until the 19th century, but these groups which was semi-Muslims was pretty much converted as the Ottomans moved from a feudal state to a modern state, which ended much of the Kurdish autonomy.
 
It is difficult to establish which religion the Kurds followed prior to the conquests of the early Arab empire or whether the non-Kurds were indeed a significant part of the Kurdish population until recently.

It seems the best approach would been for the ATL Kurds to somehow remain largely Yazidi, possibly via more successful uprisings compared to OTL though other factors may lead to the Kurds largely embracing another religion.
 
It is difficult to establish which religion the Kurds followed prior to the conquests of the early Arab empire or whether the non-Kurds were indeed a significant part of the Kurdish population until recently.

It seems the best approach would been for the ATL Kurds to somehow remain largely Yazidi, possibly via more successful uprisings compared to OTL though other factors may lead to the Kurds largely embracing another religion.

What if the Kurt's actually were (or thought to be) the Lost Tribes of Israel?
 
What if the Kurt's actually were (or thought to be) the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Who by and when?
If themselves then they would at least have to adopt Aramaic as the liturgical language.
And the earlier it is the more likely Arabic and Islam will replace it.
 
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