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he revolted again the Abbasids precipitated by his
assassination. (5)
The Kurds of Mosul rose in revolt under the leadership
of Ga’afar Ben Mir Hassan who had fought and defeated
the army of the Abbasid Khalif Al Moetassem Billah.
The battles between them were bloody and ruthless, and
they ended with the defeat of Prince Gaafar in 840 AD.
However, he refused to turn himself in and fought to his
last breath then he drank poison and died a hero’s death.
(Al-Kamil 1-6 page 208)
In 846 AD a great Kurdish Revolution erupted in the
regions of Asfahan mountains and the Fars. The Mosul
Kurds took part as well in a revolution under the leadership
of Misawir Bin Abdel Hamid in 866 AD against the
Abbasids. In the same way, the Kurds participated in the
Zenj revolution in the different parts of Basra as well as
participating in Yacoub Al Saffar’s revolution in 850
AD where they excelled in heroic deeds under the sublime
leadership of the Kurdish leader Mohammed Bin Abdallah
Hazarmerdi who kept kindled the spirit of the revolution
for three years (Al Tabari – Vol 11, pages 200-256).
And in the year 906 AD the leader of the Hathbanian
Kurdish tribe Mohamed Bin Hilal revolted while his forces
were about to conquer the city of Mosul. However, the
Abbasid armies flooded and surrounded his forces from
all sides and forced him to surrender and to guarantee
peace. Therefore Mohammed Bin Hilal himself went
hostage to Mosul to reassure that he meant the peace,
but the Abbasids killed him there. (Al-Kamil vol 2, page
213). In the same year, Dissam Bim Ibrahim laid the
foundation of the Kurdish Hathbanian government.
In the year 951 AD, the first Kurdish government was
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