Tahseen Said

Tahseen Said (15 August 1933 in Ba'adra[1] – 28 January 2019 in Hanover[2]) (or Tahsin Beg Saied; Kurmanji: Mîr Tehsîn Seîd Beg) was the hereditary leader (Mīr, or prince) of the Yazidi people. He was also the head of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and represented the Yazidis in all matters in respect of states and tribes. Although the historic base of the family is Ba'adra, Tahseen Said lived in the district capital, Ain Sifni.[3][4]

Tahseen Said
Emir Mir
Mir Tahseen Said Beg with his grandmother and Yazidi princess Meyan Khatun (1945)
lineage groupQātāni
ReligionYazidism (Sharfadin)

He ha a son named Hazim Tahsin Said.[5]

Life

The Office of Mīr is hereditary and is transmitted from father to son, and Tahseen Said was the successor of his father Saied Beg, who died in 1944. He became Mîr at the age of 11.[6]

He travelled in 1975 after the Algiers Agreement led to the crushing of the Kurds' resistance.[7]

During the 1991–2003 existence of the Kurdistan Region, he served as sub-ruler of the Yazidis in that territory.[8] Mîr Tahseen survived an assassination attempt in 2004.[9]

On 4 August 2014, he issued a plea to world leaders concerning the plight of the Yazidis being attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[10]

He died on 28 January 2019 in the Siloah hospital in Hanover.[6] He was buried in Ain Sifni on 5 February 2019.[11]

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See also

References
  1. "Ezidi Leader Mir Tahsin Beg Dies At 86 In Germany". Al Shahid News. 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  2. Shefler, Gil (August 7, 2014). "Islamic State accused of capturing Yazidi women and forcing them to convert, or else". Washington Post. Religion News Service. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  3. Allison, Christine (2004-02-20). "Yazidis i: General". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved August 20, 2010. There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.
  4. "What you did not know about Iraq's Yazidi minority". Al Arabiya News. Al Arabiya Network. Al Arabiya Institute for Studies. August 11, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  5. Malas, Nour (August 15, 2014). "Driven From Their Homes, Iraq's Yazidis Seek Protection". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  6. Alkaidy, Gohdar (2019-01-28). "Mir Tahsin Said Beg: Oberhaupt der Jesiden stirbt im deutschen Exil". Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  7. Tolan, Kemal and Telim (April 1999). "Interview with the chief of the Yezidis - Mir Tahsin Beg Saied". yeziden.de. Center for Ezidische Research. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  8. Birgül A̧çikyildiz (15 October 2010). The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion. I.B. Tauris. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-84885-274-7.
  9. Dougherty, Beth K. (2019-06-15). Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 821. ISBN 9781538120057.
  10. Packer, George (August 6, 2014). "A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS". New Yorker. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  11. "Prince of IS-ravaged Yazidis buried in Iraq". Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
Preceded by
Saied Beg		 Mir of Yazidis
1944–2019		 Succeeded by
Hazim Tahsin Said
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