Mahmud Barzanji

Sheikh
Mahmud Barzanji
شێخ مه‌حموود
Şêx Mehmûdê Berzencî
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji[1]
King of Kurdistan
Reign1922–1924
Born1878
Sulaymaniyah, Mosul Vilayet, Ottoman Iraq, Ottoman Empire
Died9 October 1956(1956-10-09) (aged 77–78)
Baghdad, Iraq
Burial
Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq
IssueBaba Ali Shaikh Mahmood (son, 1912–1996)

Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (Kurdish: شێخ مه‌حموود بەرزنجی) or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 – October 9, 1956) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. He was named King of Kurdistan during several of these uprisings.

  1. ^ Sicker, Martin (2001). The Middle East in the Twentieth Century. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275968939.