Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah

Sheikh Ubeydullah uprising
Date1879–1880
Location
Ottoman Empire and Iran
Result Defeat of Sheikh Ubeydullah
Belligerents
Kurdish tribes  Ottoman Empire
 Persia

The Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah was a Kurdish uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1879 and Qajar Iran between 1880 and 1881. Both uprising were led by Sheikh Ubeydullah, the leader of the Semdinan Naqshbandi family who claimed descendance from Mohammed through his daughter Fatima.[1] Thus the family had a considerable influence, disposed over large amounts of donations,[2] owned several villages in the region[1] and many Kurdish tribal leaders were devout followers of him.[3] The initial cause for the uprisings were the outcome of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877-78 and the Treaty of Berlin[4] which provided the Christian Armenians and the Nestorian Assyrians with considerable rights and autonomy, to which he did not agree to.[4]

  1. ^ a b Özoğlu, Hakan (2004-02-12). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.
  2. ^ Behrendt, Günter (1993). Nationalismus in Kurdistan: Vorgeschichte, Entstehungsbedingungen und erste Manifestationen bis 1925 (in German). Deutsches Orient-Institut. p. 215. ISBN 978-3-89173-029-4.
  3. ^ Olson, Robert W. (1989). The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925. University of Texas Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-292-77619-7.
  4. ^ a b Özoğlu, Hakan (2004), p.74