Sheikh Mizʿal

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Sheikh Mizʿal

Iranian sheikh

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Khazʿal Khan
…instrumental in having his brother, Sheikh Mizʿal, assassinated in June 1897. He then became the ruler of Moḥammerah and the paramount chief of the Arab tribes of Khūzestān. Though nominally owing allegiance to the central government in Tehrān, the Arab sheikhdom of Moḥammerah, which differed culturally and ethnically from the…
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…instrumental in having his brother, Sheikh Mizʿal, assassinated in June 1897. He then became the ruler of Moḥammerah and the paramount chief of the Arab tribes of Khūzestān. Though nominally owing allegiance to the central government in Tehrān, the Arab sheikhdom of Moḥammerah, which differed culturally and ethnically from the…
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