Tahseen Said

Tahseen Said
Emir Mir
lineage group Qātāni
Religion Yezidism (Sharfadin)

Tahseen Said (born c. 1933)[1] (or Tahsin Beg Saied; Kurdish: Mîr Tehsîn Seîd Beg‎) is the current hereditary leader (Mīr, or prince) of the Yazidi people. He is also the head of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and represents the Yazidis in all matters in respect of states and tribes. Although the historic base of the family is Ba'adra, Tahseen Said currently lives in the district capital, Ain Sifni.[2][3]

The Office of Mīr is hereditary and is transmitted from father to son, and Tahseen Said is the successor of his father Saied Beg, who died in 1944. He has a son named Hazim Tahsin Said.[4]

Life

He travelled in 1975 after the Algiers Agreement led to the crushing of the Kurds' resistance.[5] During the 1991–2003 existence of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, he served as sub-ruler of the Yezidis in that territory.[6] Mir Tahseen survived an assassination attempt in 2004. 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.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Allison, Christine (2004-02-20). "Yazidis i: General". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved August 20, 2010. There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Malas, Nour (August 15, 2014). "Driven From Their Homes, Iraq's Yazidis Seek Protection". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Packer, George (August 6, 2014). "A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS". New Yorker. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
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