Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji شێخ مهحموود | |
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Şêx Mehmûdê Berzencî Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji[1] | |
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King of Kurdistan | |
Reign | 1922–1924 |
Born | 1878 Sulaymaniyah, Mosul Vilayet, Ottoman Iraq, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 9 October 1956 Baghdad, Iraq | (aged 77–78)
Burial | Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq |
Issue | Baba Ali Shaikh Mahmood (son, 1912–1996) |
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (Kurdish: شێخ مهحموود بەرزنجی) or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 – October 9, 1956) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. He was named King of Kurdistan during several of these uprisings.