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The aim of this thesis is to explore the religious music of the Yazidi community of northern Iraq—an ethno-religious, heterodox, Kurdish-speaking group—through an ethnomusicological approach. This music is performed by the qawwâl, Arabic-speaking musician-officiants, to whom particular attention is given in this study. In the absence of written sacred texts, the qawwâl are responsible for transmitting religious texts through chant, according to what is referred to as the “science of the chest” (oral transmission). They accompany themselves with instruments considered sacred among the Yazidis: the daf, a frame drum, and the shibbâba, an oblique wooden flute. The primary occasion for this transmission is the annual pilgrimage of the Jamāʿīyah (“gathering”), which takes place each autumn in Lalish, in the Sheikhan district of northern Iraq. This principal sacred site for the Yazidis houses the mausoleum of Sheikh ʿÂdî ibn Musâfir, a 12th-century Syro-Iraqi Sufi who brought reforms and a structure to the Yazidi community that remain deeply present in contemporary rituals. The Yazidi religion, whose origins are marked by Zoroastrianism and Mithraism, appears historically shaped by a tension between resistance to persecution in a religious environment often hostile to minorities and the temptation to adopt certain customs from that same environment. This tension has led to the emergence of numerous syncretic phenomena, including certain Sufi influences, which are reflected in shared ritual practices. However, a close analysis of these rituals reveals distinct specificities in their content, execution, and especially in their music. It is within this highly specific anthropological framework that the thesis examines the formal characteristics of this music, which remains largely understudied. These are distinguished by heterophony, heterorhythm, unusual tonal divergences between voices and instruments, as well as the use of chromatic scales and microtonal intervals. In order to provide a comprehensive perspective, the analysis of pilgrimage rituals and the role of the qawwâl also takes into account the transformations brought about by the aggression of the Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. In this context, the Yazidi community has reassessed its ritual practices and initiated a partial lifting of the secrecy surrounding a tradition long shaped by esotericism and the withdrawal of a community that has historically felt under threat.