Meyan Khatun
Mira Meyan Khatun or Mayan Khatun (Kurdish: Meyan Xatûn; born. 1874/1873, Ba'adra,[1] Ottoman Empire - died 1957[2] [3] /1958,[4] Sinjar, Kingdom of Iraq) — Yazidi princess,[5] a regent [6] of Yezidi Emirate of Sheikhan in 1913-1957.[4]
Life
[edit ]Mayan was a daughter of the well known Yezidi prince Abdi Beg.[2] She was the wife of Mir Ali Beg,[3] [5] [7] mother of Mir Sa'id Beg [8] [7] and a grandmother of Mir Tahsin Beg.[5] [8] [7] She is said to have been an extraordinary personality and respected as the legal guardian of her son and later also of her grandson Tahsin Beg.[7] [9]
In an event known as the Year of the General in the year 1892, the Ottoman general Omar Wehbi Pasha waged a military campaign against the Yazidi[10] [11] and she and her husband, Mîr Ali Beg were sent to exile from which they only with difficulties could arrange their return.[9]
Meyan Khatun's grandson, Prince Tahseen Said, held the symbolic position of Prince of the Yezidis until his death in January 2020.[12]
References
[edit ]- ^ Kurdish Informational Portal: Denge Azad Archived 2011年10月14日 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 72, Issue 2
- ^ a b Shahrzad Mojab, Women of a non-state nation: the Kurds, pg. 102
- ^ a b Lokman I. Meho, The Kurds and Kurdistan: a selective and annotated bibliography, pg. 235
- ^ a b c Wadie Jwaideh, The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, pg. 45
- ^ Nelida Fuccaro, The other Kurds: Yazidis in colonial Iraq, pg. 21
- ^ a b c d Edmonds, C. J. (2002年03月21日). A Pilgrimage to Lalish. Psychology Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-947593-28-5.
- ^ a b John S. Guest The Yezidis: a study in survival
- ^ a b ÊzîdîPress (2019年01月29日). "Der letzte Mîr". ÊzîdîPress (in German). Retrieved 2020年04月25日.
- ^ Allison, Christine (2001年09月14日). The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan. Routledge. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-1-136-74655-0.
- ^ C.J. Edmonds (1967), p.60
- ^ Salloum, Saad (2019年02月17日). "Yazidis divided over selection of new leader". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020年03月16日.
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