Mira Meyan Khatun or Mayan Khatun (; born. 1874/1873, Ba'adra,Kurdish Informational Portal: Denge Azad Ottoman Empire - died 1957Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 72, Issue 2Shahrzad Mojab, Women of a non-state nation: the Kurds, pg. 102/1958, Sinjar, Kingdom of Iraq) — Yazidi princess,Wadie Jwaideh, The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, pg. 45 a regentNelida Fuccaro, The other Kurds: Yazidis in colonial Iraq, pg. 21 of Yazidi principality of Sheikhan in 1913-1957.Lokman I. Meho, The Kurds and Kurdistan: a selective and annotated bibliography, pg. 235
Life Mayan was a daughter of the well known Yazidi prince Abdi Beg. She was the wife of Mir Ali Beg, sister of Mir Ismail Chol Beg, mother of Mir Sa'id BegJohn S. Guest The Yezidis: a study in survival and a grandmother of Mir Tahsin Beg. She is said to have been an extraordinary personality and respected as the legal guardian of her son and later also of her grandson Tahsin Beg.
In an event known as the Year of the General in the year 1892, the Ottoman general Omar Wehbi Pasha waged a military campaign against the YazidisC.J. Edmonds (1967), p.60 and she and her husband, Mîr Ali Beg were sent to exile from which they only with difficulties could arrange their return.
Meyan Khatun's grandson, Prince Tahsin Said, held the symbolic position of Prince of the Yazidis (Mîr) until his death in January 2019. He was succeeded by his son, Prince Hazim Tahsin Beg, in July of the same year.
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