Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

Chapter III
Spiritual Life, Religious Creeds and their
Sufi ways in Kurdistan
Sufi ways have played an important role in the Kurdish
liberation movement since most of the Sufi Sheikhs were
leaders of the people whereby they defended the rights
of their followers and dependents from their cells and
helped them against the injustice caused by the colonising
countries to Kurdistan. Some of these Sheikhs are: Sheikh
Mahmoud El Hafid, King of Kurdistan (1919-1923), one
of the most well known Sheikhs of the Qaderiah way,
and the leader of the Kurdish liberation revolutions in
Southern Kurdistan after World War II.
Sheikh Said Piran leader of the Kurdish Revolution in
1925, Sheikh Ubeid Ullah El-Nahri leader of the Kurdish
Revolution in 1880 and the Barzan “Sheikhdom” that
led the Kurdish Revolutions during the thirties and forties
in the 19th Century were followers of the Naqishbandi
creed.
I will present some details about the struggles and
revolutions of the Barzan “Sheikhdom” as one of the
everlastingly glorious moments in the history of our
people:
The first Naqishbandi Sheikh in Barzan was the Mullah
Abdel Rahman ordained head of the following in the
thirties in the 19th Century. The main goals of the
Sheikhdom at his time, and at the time of his predecessor
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