Sheikh Mand

{{Short description|Yazidi saint, first ruler of Kilis principality}}

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| name = Sheikh Mand

| title = Emir

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| succession = Emir of Kurds

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| full name = Sheikh Mand ibn Fakhir ad-Din ibn Eizdin al-Hakkariya

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| successor = Arbu Beg

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| dynasty = Şemsanî

| father = Fexredîn

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| religion = Yazidism

| birth_date = 12th century

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File:Shegh mand shrine.jpg, Iraq which was destroyed by ISIS on 25 August 2014 and then rebuilt in 2021]]

Sheikh Mand or Sheikh Mend, Sheikh Mand Pasha ({{Langx|ku|Şêx Mend}}{{cite book | last=Omarkhali | first=Khanna | author-link=Khanna Omarkhali | title=The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts | publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag | publication-place=Wiesbaden | year=2017 | isbn=978-3-447-10856-0 | oclc=994778968}}) was a 12th-century Yazidi saint, ruler of Kilis principality, and an Ayyubid Army commanfiefdom is the son of Şêx Fexredîn and thus belongs to the Şemsanî lineage of sheikhs. His sister was Khatuna Fekhra, revered today as one of the most important Yazidi female saints.{{Cite book |last=Açikyildiz |first=Birgül |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBCMDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ayyubid+sinjar&pg=PA42 |title=The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion |date=2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85772-061-0 |pages=41 |language=en}}{{cite book | last=Kreyenbroek | first=Philip | author-link=Philip G. Kreyenbroek | title=Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition | publisher=E. Mellen Press | publication-place=Lewiston NY | year=1995 | isbn=0-7734-9004-3 | oclc=31377794}}{{cite book | last=Kreyenbroek | first=Philip | author-link=Philip G. Kreyenbroek | title=God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition | publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag | publication-place=Wiesbaden | year=2005 | isbn=978-3-447-05300-6 | oclc=63127403}}