Hussein Beg Dasini

Hussein Beg Dasini or Hisên Begê Dasinî (* in the 15th century; † after 1534 in Istanbul ) was a Yazidi prince in the 16th century.

Origin and family

Little is known about the life of Hussein Beg Dasini, the only written source about him is the Scherefname of Şerefhan from 1597.

According to Şerefhan, Hussein Beg Dasini comes from an old Yezidi princely family, from which the secular head of all Yazidis emerges to this day and ruled over Shaykhan and Sinjar . According to oral Yazidi traditions, the progenitor of this princely family comes from Khorasan and was a contemporary of Yazidi saint Sheikh Adi .

He is an ancestor of Mir Tahsin Saied Beg .

As prince of Soran

Suleyman I. presented the Vilayet Soran with the Sanjak Erbil to Hussein Beg Dasini in 1534 . Before that, the Kurdish prince Izz ad-Din Scher , a member of the traditional princely family of Soran, ruled over Soran, but was executed by Suleyman I.

One of Scher's nephews, Emir Sayf ad-Din , attacked Hussein Beg Dasini several times, but was beaten each time. Emir Say ad-Din fled to the Kurdish prince of Ardalan . However, the hoped-for support did not materialize, which is why Emir Sayf ad-Din returned to Soran. At the time, Hussein Beg Dasini was not present.

Emir Say ad-Din was able to pull the majority of the Kurdish tribes there to his side and attacked Erbil with a large number of fighters and captured it in the so-called Battle of Erbil .

execution

When Suleyman I found out about this defeat, he had Hussein Beg Dasini ordered to Constantinople (Istanbul), where he was sentenced to death and executed. The exact year is not known.

After his death

After the death of Hussein Beg Dasini and the loss of their rule, the situation of the Yazidis worsened considerably. Especially since a great hostility developed between the Yazidis and the Kurdish tribes or Muslims from Soran and there were more and more armed conflicts. The Yazidis were able to keep the upper hand in the fighting, but were exposed to a great wave of persecution at the latest after the infamous fatwa by Mehmed Ebussuud Efendi in 1545, which religiously legitimized the killing and enslavement of the Yazidis, among other things.

literature

• John S. Guest: Survival Among the Kurds. A History of the Yezidis. Routledge, London / New York 1993, ISBN 978-0-710-30456-8 .
• Mehmet Emin Zeki Bey: Kürd ve Kürdistan Ünluleri. Apec, Spånga 1998, ISBN 978-9-189-01445-9 .
• François Bernard Charmoy (ed., Transl.): Chèref-nâmeh, ou Fastes de la nation kourde. St. Petersburg 1868–1875.
• Birgul Acikyildiz: The Yezidis. The History of a Community. IB Tauris, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-784-53216-1 .