Picture of Oct 2002

Sheyx Mehmúd Berzenjí

Sheik Mahmmud Barzanji: Shaykh Mahmud, leader of many Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq, was the leader of the Qadirí Sufi house of Barzanji. He announced the free independent Kingdom of Kurdistan in 1922.

Picture is from "Road Through Kurdistan" by A. M. Hamilton, Londres, 1937


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