Qaidi

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Qaidi (in German also Qaidi , Qaidy ) is a Kurdish - Yezidi noble family from the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq. Until 2008, Nadjim Agha , son of Hussein, son of Mirzo, was the head of the tribe . Before his death he passed the tribe on to his second-born son Hadji, after which (2009) the tribe passed to Bashir Khalil Agha, the son of Khalil Agha.

Biography of the chiefs

Mirzo Agha

The exact date of Mirzo's birth is not known. Mirzo Agha is named after his grandfather. In the prime of his reign he was murdered by enemies of the family because of his prominent position. This led to a blood feud between the Qaidis and the murderer's family . Mirzo was avenged by his brother Nadjim Agha . Mirzo was a member of the last Iraqi royal council under King Faisal II.

Nadjim Agha

Nadjim Agha in his garden in Sina / Northern Iraq in the late 1980s

Nadjim Agha avenged his brother Mirzo Agha, for which he was sentenced to death. He was released from prison after five years on a pardon. Eventually he was elected head of the tribe. During the reign of Saddam Hussein , Nadjim Agha spent many years in the mountains of Kurdistan as one of the high-ranking Peshmergas . During his stays in the mountains, his wife, Scherin, handled the affairs of the tribe. She was called "Dade" ( Kurdish mother ) by the members of the tribe . Nadjim Agha and Dade Scherin have seven children. Two of them (twins) died under Saddam's embargo against the Kurds when they were around one year old . After the death of his first wife, Nadjim Agha married a second time. From this marriage three more children emerged.

Hadji Agha

Hadji Agha was born in the north of Iraq in 1957. He was chosen by his father Nadjim Agha to succeed him. Hadji Agha is a military strategist and peshmerga who played a prominent role in the Barzani revolts in Duhok province. He is a political and economic scientist and geologist specializing in petroleum. Under Saddam Hussein, he was imprisoned as a political prisoner at the end of the 1980s, including in Abu Ghuraib prison . In the mid-1990s he emigrated to Europe as a political refugee. Shortly before the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, he returned to the Kurdish autonomous region. Most of his sons stayed in Europe to study at university.

Qaidis festivities

Tuafa Karajal

Tomb of the holy Karajal on the top of the mountain in Sina / Northern Iraq

Tuafa Karajal is a festivity held every year on the fourth Wednesday of April in honor of the holy Karajal . This festival is also the family festival of the Qaidi family. According to tradition, Mirzo Agha and Nadjim Agha are direct descendants of Karajal.

Qabax

Qabax celebrations in Lalisch in honor of the Qaidis tribal leader

Qabax belongs to the religious festivities of the Yazidis and comes from the Kurdish Gaibax and means the grazing grounds of the holy bull. This festival is held annually in honor of the head of the Qaidis in the pilgrimage town of Lalisch . The celebrations go back to the reconquest of Lalisch by the Yazidis. After Lalisch was occupied by Islamic conquerors, the Qaidis, then known as the Dassen principality , succeeded in liberating Lalisch. Thereupon the religious Yazidi dignitaries gave this Dassen principality the title of leader / king, in Arabic Qaidi or Qaid. The tribe still bears this name today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Allison, The Yezidi Oral Tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan. Richmond, Surrey 2001, pp. Xviii