After conquering large swathes of northern Iraq, the Islamic State undertook an aggressive genocidal campaign against the Yezidi people in which they not only executed and enslaved thousands of innocent civilians, but also damaged or destroyed several key Yezidi temples and shrines. Drawing on a small sample of in-depth semi-structured interviews with Yezidi men and women from two regions conquered by the Islamic State, this article documents the effect this wave of persecution has had on these Yezidi individuals. It finds that the attacks by the Islamic State on Yezidis and their heritage sites have caused considerable suffering among the community, in part because of their inability to practise their intangible religious rituals and customs. However, the Yezidi people have also demonstrated remarkable resistance and resilience to the Islamic State genocide in terms of returning to their ancient homelands, reconstructing their heritage sites and the re-emergence of their intangible religious heritage practices. The article concludes by noting that the new insights gleaned from these interviews are a step towards better understanding the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage in the wake of conflict, genocide and mass heritage destruction.

在征服了伊拉克北部的广大地区之后，伊斯兰国对叶兹迪人民进行了激进的种族灭绝运动，他们不仅处决并奴役了数千名无辜平民，而且还破坏或摧毁了数座主要的叶兹迪寺庙和神社。本文通过对伊斯兰国征服的来自两个地区的耶齐迪男女进行的深入半结构式访谈的一小部分样本，证明了这一迫害浪潮对这些耶齐迪个人的影响。它发现，伊斯兰国对耶济迪斯及其遗产的袭击在社区中造成了相当大的痛苦，部分原因是他们无法实行其无形的宗教仪式和习俗。然而，叶兹迪人民在返回古老的家园，重建遗产遗址和非物质宗教遗产习俗的复兴方面，也表现出对伊斯兰国种族灭绝的显着抵抗和复原力。文章最后指出，从这些访谈中收集到的新见解是朝着更好理解冲突，种族灭绝和大规模遗产破坏之后的有形和无形遗产之间的关系迈出的一步。