Name: Saif Al-Din
Father Name: Aziz khan Mokri
Mother Name: Razia Khanum
Year Of Birth: 1861
Year Of Death: 1890
Place Of Birth: Bokan
Place Of Death: Tabriz
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Prince Al-Mukryani (Saif Al-Din Khan Mokry II) 1861 AD - 1890 AD. Prince Mukriyani (Saif al-Din Khan Muqri II) or Sardar (Saif al-Din Khan Muqri), the prince of the Kurdish Emirate of Muqriyani, was born in the year 1861 AD, in the city of Bokan, He is the son of Prince (Aziz Khan Mokri), nicknamed (Sardar Aziz Khan), As for his mother (Razia Khanum), she is from the Emirate of Ardalan, and from the (Tileko) clan, which was one of the Kurdish nomadic clans in the Emirate of Ardalan. The Kurdish Emirate of Mukaryan was subject to the influence of the Qajar kingdom, and there was a marriage relationship between the ruling Qajar family and the ruling Mukarrian family.
In the year 1870 A.D., and after the death of Prince Muqriyani (Aziz Khan Muqri), who was the governor (Sardara) of the region of Azerbaijan as well. The Qajar king (Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar) appointed his son (Saif al-Din Khan Mokri), who was not more than 7 or 9 years old, as ruler of the province of Saugblag (Mahabad), which constituted the semi-autonomous emirate of Mokryan.
The French traveler (Jacques de Morgan) wrote in his memoirs in the year 1890 AD, on the authority of Prince (Saif al-Din Khan Mokri), saying: {Saif al-Din Khan, son of the former ruler of Azerbaijan of the same name, was a descendant of the Mokri rulers, and thus had undeniable power and support over various tribes and nomads. Unfortunately, shortly after our departure from Mukryan, this able and wise man, who was twenty-nine years old, was kidnapped by the term. And Jacques de Morgan adds: {On my way back to Mukerian, I and (Kham Murugan) and all the caravans left at the Sardarabad Palace, which my friend (Saif al-Din Khan) had kindly introduced to us, and I went to Tabriz four times to resolve some issues related to my mission}, In his travel notes, Jacques de Morgan provides more details about Saif al-Din Khan Mokri. He says: {There we received the news of the death of General Saif al-Din Khan, the ruler of Kurdistan al-Mukriyah. He was twenty-nine years old, and the king had just appointed him a marshal. Saifuddin Khan spent some time away from his father. He was only seven years old when Marshall, the ruler of Azerbaijan, died. His mother took advantage of his youth and squandered the enormous wealth she controlled for his own benefit.
He was supported by those previously appointed by Sardar (Aziz Khan), and by the time Saif al-Din had reached the age of intellectual maturity, only Bukan of the vast one hundred and eighty villages that had been in his father's possession remained in his possession, the village in which he held firm. where he resisted the rebels during the Mukri revolt, Saif al-Din Khan had an extraordinary talent and commanded admirably the oriental languages ​​such as Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Kurdish, French, and a little English and German. He was self-taught, and his astonishing power of attraction soon made him superior to all European-educated Iranians, Besides, Saifuddin Khan was a good and brave manager when trouble happened. On several occasions he established peace in Kurdistan. His death was a great loss for the Iranian government. Later, I learned that Saif al-Din Khan had been poisoned by his wife, who is the daughter of a nobleman of Mokriyah Kurdistan.} The Kurdish prince (Saif al-Din Khan Mokryan) left behind important construction works, and he paid a lot of attention to the city of Bukan (the capital of the Mokryan Emirate), such as building markets, mosques, and water basins, and among his most important works during his rule of the Mokryan Emirate are: Expansion and completion of the construction works of (Sardar) Castle in Bukan.
Building a water basin and transferring its water to Sardar Castle. Building a small indoor market near the castle (Sardar) in Bukan city. Building the village of (Sardarabad) and its palace. Control of the tribes and the suppression of the rebellious Makri leaders (which was called the Makri Revolution). Governor of Saogblagh (Mahabad) Al-Mukriyah Province (for a short period). Prince (Saif al-Din Khan Mokri), died in the year 1890 AD, in the city of Tabriz (the capital of the Azerbaijan region) at the age of only 29 years. And his body was buried, near the tomb of his father, Prince (Aziz Khan Mokri), in the shrine of (Imam Syed Hamza Al-Kadhimi) in the city of Tabriz.[1] [2]