Name: Ismail Gul
Father Name: Abde
Date Of Birth : The End Of Nineteenth
Date Of Death: Unknown
Place Of Birth: Sheikhan
Place Of Death: southern Kurdistan
Life
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He is Prince Ismail Beg Gul, the time period: (the end of the nineteenth century, the beginning of the twentieth century), the Emir of the Yazidis in (Sinjar / Shingal), who left his hometown in the Sheikhan region, and toured the places inhabited by the Yazidis in: (Sinjar / Shingal), And (Diyarbakir / Amad), Aleppo, Russia, and other regions, seeking his right to leadership and emirate, carrying with him the laws of his religion; He gives it to everyone who wants to know something about the Yazidi religion from the dispersed Yazidis in the diaspora, and other followers of other religions.
The prince lived his childhood as an orphan of his father and mother, and his sister, Mian Khatun, supported him until he grew up and was able to rely on himself. His personality, which preceded his era, was sharpened as a result of his travels and aspirations in search of support and his right to the emirate. On his trip, he got acquainted with the Armenians, and through his skill, intelligence, and tact, he obtained official recognition of the Yezidis in Russia. And he benefited from the authority of his Armenian and Christian friends in Istanbul to restore the rights of the Yazidis, and their religious sanctities that were looted by Lieutenant General (Omar Wahbi Pasha) by order of the Ottoman authorities during his notorious campaign against the Yazidis in the year 1892 . Despite the Emir's success in obtaining official approvals from Istanbul to restore the Yazidi sanctities, his attempt was not doomed to failure as a result of the intervention of his cousin (Ali Beg) and some influential and religious authority from the followers of the Yazidi religion, and this became a historical crime against the Emir and the right of the Yazidis.
The Emir had an honorable humanitarian role during the campaign to annihilate the Armenians and Christians by the Ottoman Empire, as the Emir, along with the Yazidis in Shingal, took an honorable position to protect the Armenians from genocide. Despite the pressure of the Ottomans, the Armenians did not hand them over, and they protected them. The prince asked the Armenians to assign one of them to teach them the basics of the Christian religion. He also built a house for them and made it a monastery for worship and the establishment of their religious rituals. This help later became a good ground for closer relations between the Yazidis and Christians. As a result, the English supported the Emir at the beginning of the British Mandate. This was an opportunity for the Yazidis to get rid of Ottoman criminality. Indeed, the matter of the prince and his fame spread in Iraq. He was offered a political position in Iraq by the British, as he was previously offered religious positions outside Iraq and material temptations, but he refused everything related to personal interests, and he remained demanding only one thing, which was the position of Emir of the Yazidis, which he considered his legitimate right. That right that his sister (Mian Khatun) and her son Said Bey (son of Ali Beg) had seized and deprived him of. Finally, he became Emir of (Shingal), but his English friends quickly abandoned him, and exiled him to Baghdad and then to (Shingal) on the condition that he give up his claim to the Principality, so he remained in it handcuffed and unable to move because of the imposition of the conditions of house arrest on him.
The prince is considered the first to encourage the idea of ​​enrolling the sons and daughters of the Yazidi religion in schools. He started with his family, sent his children to schools, and confronted the customs and traditions prevailing at the time. Keeping pace with the spirit of the times in progress and openness. Because he has learned from his travels and experiences in life that education and knowledge are the only way to survive, advance, advance and overcome enemies.
the source ; translated from Arabic language
Let the honorable reader imagine with me the presence of such a personality in our current era, with skill, diplomacy, field experience and extensive relations that unite the Yazidis in various parts of the world and represent them well in international forums.
It was stated in the introduction to the book that the prince “dictated to one of the writers the story of his life and all the situations he faced during his travels and travels, by searching for support for his cause, in which he believed in the last days of his life. And he sent them to the American University of Beirut to publish them as serial articles in the university's magazine - Research. His ambition was to see what he wrote, but he died - may God have mercy on him - before his dream came true, so the president of the university decided to publish the hadiths in a book and assigned the great historian Dr. Constantine Zureik to investigate, review and revise it, and the princess helped him The Yazidi woman (Wansa Ismail), who was a student at the American School at the time, issued his memoirs and the events he chronicled as a printed book on August 25, 1934.”
Thus, Prince Ismail Beg Gul was considered the first to write his memoirs among the Yazidis, and thus his name was written in the bright pages of the history of the Yazidis as a true believer and servant of his religion, that great religion, which is deep in the foot of history, and lofty as the mountains of (Shingal / Sinjar) despite the firmans, persecution, oppression, Turkification and Arabization that it was subjected to For centuries and centuries..
The Source: translated from Arabic language to English by vazhan kshto. [1]