The Tribes and Clans in Mukeryan State - Fayzollabaigi Clan - Part 2

Leila Zamani

Read the first part of this article here

 

The sources claim that before the Fayzollabaigi clan and Sardar Aziz Khan Mukri came to Bokan district, during Mohammad Shah Qajar, the Warmizyar clan settled in this district.

This clan had been scattered many times in various parts of Iran by the central government. Thus, even now they live in various provinces such as Tabriz, Urmia and Sna and a small number of them live in Bokan and Diwandara while some others live in Hashtaro, Maragha, Jolfa and Makou cities speaking in Kurdish and Turkish. However, as members of this clan say, even those who live outside of Kurdistan are originally Kurds and those who live in Kurdistan have Kurdish language and culture.

Obviously, after the Fayzollabaigis came to the Bokan district, these two clans, the Turks of Afshar and the Warmizyars, left the area. Although a part of these two clans still lives there.

 Abdul Rahman Bag, the first leader of this clan, had a strong bond with Mohammad Shah Qajar's prime minister and thus made the Qajar kings pay attention to this area after he dominated the whole district.

After Abdul Rahman Bag, his son Fayzollabag from 1871 to 1883 became the leader of this clan. Fayzollahbag was born in 1806 in Qajr village in Bokan.

Fayzollahbag Mukri Babamiri, the great-grandfather of the Fayzollahbagi clan

As mentioned, Abdul Rahman Bag left his lands and properties in the Mangur district of Yaltamir due to conflicts they had with the Mangur clan and came to Bokan. They gradually began to buy lands and villages in this area and after Abbas Debokri was killed, he went to the Qajar court and met with the Prime Minister and Iran's king. He was blessed with the king's gifts for playing a great role in settling the conflicts of the two clans of Bagzadeh and Debokri. As Fayzollabag grew more powerful, he proved to be a brave man of his time. He bought most of the villages around Bokan and Saqqez with his sons and his close relatives, thus, dominating the whole area and protecting it from Chardawoli and Afshar invasions.

Before Sheikh Obeidollah Nahri, he was arrested by the Sablagh governor who was a Qajar Turk and was treated disrespectfully. He was forced to pay money. This led Fayzollabag and his sons to participate in the revolution of Sheikh Obeidollah Shamzini against the Qajar king. At that time, Tikantapa village, which was the central village for the Feyzollabag's authority was invaded by the armed forces of the Iranian government plundering the village thus Fayzollabag and his men were forced to escape the village and take refuge in other villages. Later, they were able to get rid of those armed forces with the help of the Miyandoab Bagzadeh clan known as Barik and regain their lands once again. After some time, Fayzollabag and Hamza Agha Mangur, the leader of the Mangur clan, faced some disagreement thus, Fayzollabag left Sheikh Obeidollah's forces and went back to their district.

He died a few months after the revolution in 1881 in Tikantapa village of Bokan city.

Sheikh Obeidollah Nahri

After all these events, and to protect the district, he contacted Sardar Aziz Khan who was the war minister of "Naser Al-din Shah" one of the Qajar kings, who was the supreme leader of all the Iranian troops. This made him so powerful that none of the other clans could dream of attacking them.

Aziz Khan Sardari Mukri

After the Qajars, the Fayzollabaigis could penetrate Mahabad once again by making marital relationships with the Qazi family. This made them play an effective role in the new revolution in Kurdistan. The lords of Fayzollabaigi participated in the new revolution of Kurdistan and helped the Kurdistan Republic and Peshawa Qazi Mohammad to succeed. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic, some of their brave commanders were executed in Bokan and Saqqez cities after the Qazi family members by the Monarchy regime of Iran.

The great martyrs of the Fayzollabigi clan after the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic were:

Ali Bag Sherzad: He was one of the martyrs who was a powerful lord with a lot of lands and properties spending it on the success of the Kurdistan Republic Peshmerga. Thus, after the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic, he was executed before any other Fayzollabagi lords in the Hawza Gawra (the great pond) in Boka. Ali Bag was one of the central forces of the Democratic Kurdistan Party coming from the Fayzollabaigi clan as a descendent of Agha Sherbag. He recited this poem when he was about to be executed:

The day of my execution will be a great day

That day I will raise my head and all the world will be beneath me

Mohammad Amin Bag Mortezayi (son of Morteza bag Mukri, son of Ali bag Mukri along with his nephew Mohammad Khan Alaklou son of Khalil Khan Dasalouja got killed). Mohammad Khan Fayzollabagi, Ahmad Farouq, Ahmad Khan Shaji'I (descendent of Shaji' al Saltana Fayzollabaigi was executed in the dawn of Wednesday, February, 5th, 1947 in Saqqez city with ten of his companions), Hassan Fayzollabagi, Hamad Agha Shiqoyof, Hossein Khan Kani Nyaz, Ali Agha Tamota, Mahmoud Khan Turkamankandi, Agha Sadiq Yaziblaghi are among those Fayzollabaigi members who were executed after the Kurdistan Republic collapsed. 

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