Philip G. Kreyenbroek

Philip G. Kreyenbroek (born 1948 ) is a Dutch academic specialising in Iranian studies. Throughout his career, he has published several books and articles on the Zoroastrian, Kurdish, and Yazidi traditions.

Education From 1966 he studied Persian, Arabic and Turkish at the University of Amsterdam where he obtained a BSc in 1970. He transferred to the University of Utrecht where he received an MSc Iranian studies in 1972. In 1982, he obtained a doctorate from Leiden University His research at the SOAS focused on the oral traditions of the Iranian languages and to organize such studies, he founded the Society for Iranian Oral Studies (SIOS).

According to his own account given in his farewell interview from the university, he has seriously studied 34 languages.

Writings Yezidism – its background, observances and textual tradition. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. in collab. with Shehnaz Neville Munshi, Living Zoroastrianism: urban Parsis speak about their religion. London: Routledge, 2001. with Khalil Jindy Rashow, God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005. Yezidism in Europe: different generations speak about their religion. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009. with Yiannis Kanakis, “God first and last”: religious traditions and music of the Yaresan of Guran. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Early Zoroastrianism and orality. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023.