Shabak

English Noun A member of an ethnic group native to parts of Iraq which predominantly speaks an Iranic language called Shabaki and historically practices a religion similar to Alevism called Shabakism. en 2018 Anke Otter-Beaujean, Barbara Kellner-Heikele, Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium “Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present”, Berlin, 14-17 April 1995 https://books.google.com/books?id=wt-mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&dq=Shabak&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJzbbc2JuWAxVlJrkGHbqRAXcQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=Shabak&f=false 9789004378988 Brill Publishers 161 So little is known with certainty about the Shabak 's religious beliefs that I will abstain from a detailed description; they seem comparable, however, to those of other groups with a Qizilbash background. Adjective Of or pertaining to the Shabaks or Shabakism.