
Mahmud Barzanji
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh was the 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1878, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Died: October 9, 1956, Baghdad, Iraq