{{short description|Mîr of Yazidis}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Mîr Tehsîn Beg | title = Mîr of Sheikhan | titletext = | more = | type = | image = File:Tahsin Beg and Meyan Khatun.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Mir Tahseen Said Beg with his grandmother and Yazidi princess Meyan Khatun (1945) | succession = Mîrê Şêxan | moretext = | reign = 1944 – 28 January 2019 | reign-type = | coronation = | cor-type = | predecessor = | pre-type = Shaikh | regent = | reg-type = | successor = Hazim Tahsin Beg | suc-type = | succession1 = | moretext1 = | reign1 = | reign-type1 = | coronation1 = | cor-type1 = | predecessor1 = | pre-type1 = | regent1 = | reg-type1 = | successor1 = | suc-type1 = | succession2 = | moretext2 = | reign2 = | reign-type2 = | coronation2 = | cor-type2 = | predecessor2 = | pre-type2 = | regent2 = | reg-type2 = | successor2 = | suc-type2 = | succession3 = | moretext3 = | reign3 = | reign-type3 = | coronation3 = | cor-type3 = | predecessor3 = | pre-type3 = | regent3 = | reg-type3 = | successor3 = | suc-type3 = | spouse = | spouse-type = | consort = <!-- yes or no --> | issue = | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | full name = | era name = | era dates = | regnal name = | posthumous name = | temple name = | house = Qatanî | house-type = lineage group | father = Mir Sa'id Beg | mother = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|08|15}} | birth_place = Baadre, Iraq | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|01|28|1933|08|15|df=y}} | death_place = Hanover, Germany | burial_date = | burial_place = | religion = Yazidism | occupation = | signature_type = | signature = }} '''Mir Tahsin Beg''' or '''Tahseen Said''' ({{Langx|ku|Mîr Tehsîn Seîd Beg}}, b. 15 August 1933 in Baadre<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alshahidwitness.com/ezidi-leader-tahsin-beg-dies/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224173440/https://alshahidwitness.com/ezidi-leader-tahsin-beg-dies/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 24, 2019|title=Ezidi Leader Mir Tahsin Beg Dies At 86 In Germany|date=2019-01-28|website=Al Shahid News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-24}}</ref> – d. 28 January 2019 in Hanover<ref name="wp">{{cite news|last1=Shefler|first1=Gil|title=Islamic State accused of capturing Yazidi women and forcing them to convert, or else|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/islamic-state-accused-of-capturing-yazidi-women-and-forcing-them-to-convert-or-else/2014/08/07/5e6080ba-1e70-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html|access-date=October 7, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|agency=Religion News Service|date=August 7, 2014}}</ref>) was the hereditary leader (Mīr, or prince) of Sheikhan principality and all Yazidis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=З |first=Мос��ки Нодар |last2=В |first2=Пирбари Димитрий |date=2019-12-02 |title=Кончина эмира езидов и будущее езидской общины |url=https://ras.jes.su/asaf-today/s032150750007023-7-1 |journal=Азия и Африка сегодня |language=ru |issue=11 |pages=49–54 |doi=10.31857/S032150750007023-7 |issn=0321-5075|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He was also the head of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and represented the Yazidis in all matters in respect of states and tribes. Although the historic base of the family is Ba'adra, Tahseen Said lived in the district capital, Ain Sifni.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Christine |last=Allison |date=2004-02-20 |access-date=August 20, 2010 |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/yazidis-i-general-1 |title=Yazidis i: General |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |quote=There are probably some 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=What you did not know about Iraq's Yazidi minority|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/alarabiya-studies/2014/08/11/What-you-did-not-know-about-Iraq-s-Yazidi-minority-.html|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=Al Arabiya News|agency=Al Arabiya Institute for Studies|publisher=Al Arabiya Network|date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> He had a son named Hazim Tahsin Said.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Malas|first1=Nour|title=Driven From Their Homes, Iraq's Yazidis Seek Protection|url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/driven-from-their-homes-iraqs-yazidis-seek-protection-1408138351|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=Wall Street Journal|date=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
==Life== The Office of Mīr is hereditary and is transmitted from father to son, and Tahseen Said was the successor of his father Saied Beg, who died in 1944. He became Mîr at the age of 11.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article187843490/Mir-Tahsin-Said-Beg-Oberhaupt-der-Jesiden-stirbt-im-deutschen-Exil.html|title=Mir Tahsin Said Beg: Oberhaupt der Jesiden stirbt im deutschen Exil|last=Alkaidy|first=Gohdar|date=2019-01-28|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref>
Mīr Tahsin joined the Kurdish movement in 1969. He had an office in Choman area which is located north-east of Erbil. When Tord Wallström, a Swedish journalist, met him in 1974, Mir Tahsin stated his reason for participating in the Kurdish Revolt. He stated, “I believe in the principles of the revolt. However, there is no relation between the religion and the revolt. I am Kurdish, and all the Yazidis are Kurdish; this is the reason why I joined this revolt”. The journalist asked whether all the Yezidis are participating in the revolt, to which Mîr Tahsin responded: “No, but because their participation in the revolt has not been necessary as of yet. I've not requested their participation, but if I do, at least 95% will join the revolt. By the way, the Iraqi government executed 20 Yazidis recently in Mosul”.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wallström|first=Tord|title=Bergen är våra enda vänner : ett reportage från Kurdistan|date=1975|publisher=Nordstedt|isbn=91-1-754132-8|location=Stockholm|oclc=3590888}}</ref>
He travelled in 1975 after the Algiers Agreement led to the crushing of the Kurds' resistance.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tolan|first1=Kemal and Telim|title=Interview with the chief of the Yezidis - Mir Tahsin Beg Saied|url=http://www.yeziden.de/interview_operhaupt.0.html|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=yeziden.de|publisher=Center for Ezidische Research|date=April 1999}}</ref>
During the 1991–2003 existence of the Kurdistan Region, he served as sub-ruler of the Yazidis in that territory.<ref name="A̧çikyildiz2010">{{cite book|author=Birgül A̧çikyildiz|title=The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TMqAQAAMAAJ|date=15 October 2010|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-1-84885-274-7|page=61}}</ref> Mîr Tahseen survived an assassination attempt in 2004.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Iraq|last=Dougherty|first=Beth K.|date=2019-06-15|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781538120057|pages=821|language=en}}</ref>
On 4 August 2014, he issued a plea to world leaders concerning the plight of the Yazidis being attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Packer|first1=George|title=A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/friend-flees-horror-isis|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=New Yorker|date=August 6, 2014}}</ref>
He died on 28 January 2019 in the Siloah hospital in Hanover.<ref name=":0" /> He was buried in Ain Sifni on 5 February 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.qantara.de/content/prince-of-is-ravaged-yazidis-buried-in-iraq|title=Prince of IS-ravaged Yazidis buried in Iraq|website=Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World|language=en|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref>
==See also== * Khurto Hajji Ismail
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.yeziden.de/interview_operhaupt.0.html ''Interview with the head of the Yazidi: Interview mit dem Oberhaupt der Yeziden - Mir Tahsin Saied Beg''] (April 1999). Yeziden.de {{in lang|de}}
{{S-start}} {{succession box | title=Mir of Yazidis | before=Saied Beg | after=Hazim Tahsin Said | years=1944–2019}} {{S-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Said, Tahseen}} Category:Iraqi politicians Category:Iraqi Yazidis Category:1933 births Category:2019 deaths {{Iraq-bio-stub}}