Mir Jafar Dasni
Mir Jafar Dasni | |
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| Died | c. 841 Abbasid Caliphate |
Cause of death | Suicide (In order to avoid being captured alive, He committed suicide by drinking poison) |
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Criminal charge | Rebellion against State (Treason) |
Penalty | None (died by drinking Poison) |
| Details | |
| Victims | unknown |
| Date | c. 838 – 841 |
| Killed | unknown |
Mir Jafar bin Mir Hasan Dasni (Kurdish: Mîr Ceferê Dasnî), also known as Jafar bin Faharjis, was a Kurdish-Yazidi leader who in 838 launched an uprising against Abbasid Caliph al-Mutasim in the area north of Mosul.[1][2]
After being defeated at Babagesh he resided in castles in Dasin.[3][4] Al-Mu'tasim in response sent an army under command of Abdullah bin Ans al-Azdi, resulting in an armed confrontation between the Arab army and Kurds. Due to the difficulty of the terrain, the Arab army proved unsuccessful, suffered heavy casualties and a number of its commanders including Abdullah's uncle Ishaq bin Ans and his father-in-law were killed. Al-Mu'tasim had purchased a Khazar slave, called Itakh. He appointed him as commander of his army. Itakh defeated Mir Jafar's troops in 841 and killed many Kurds.[5] In order to avoid being captured alive, Mir Jafar committed suicide by drinking poison.
See also
- Mir Jafar, military commander who betrayed the Nawab of Bengal
References
- ↑ Shammo, Qader Saleem (2018). Yezidis in Iraq: Between Citizenship and Policies of Marginalization (1958-2005). Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-1-4955-0658-1.
- ↑ Usman, Shakir Muhammad (2026-04-22). "History of Yazidi Genocides, Mass Atrocities, Forced Conversions". Journal of Kurdistani for Strategic Studies: 12.
- ↑ M. Th. Houtsma, 1993, E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936: Volume 4 - Page 1136, Brill
- ↑ Bois, Thomas (1966). The Kurds. Beirut: Khayats. p. 87.
- ↑ Kevin Alan Brook, 2009, The Jews of Khazaria, page 184, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.