page_title: Jaff (tribe)
section_title: Notable members
hierarchical_section_title: Jaff (tribe) / Notable members
caption_attribution_description: English: Mahmud Pasha Jaff in his bedroom.
context_page_description: The Jaff tribe people is a Kurdish tribe living in the borderlands of Iran and Iraq. Their heartland is between Sulaymaniyah to Sanandaj. The tribe predominantly adheres to the Shafi'i school with many Naqshbandi and Qadiriyya followers. It originated in the year 1114 by Kurdish King Zaher Beg Jaff, other important leaders were Mohamed Pasha Jaff, Lady Adela, Osman Pasha Jaff and Mahmud Pasha Jaff, their ancestral home is Sherwana Castle. The Ottoman Empire bestowed on them the name Pasha, a noble title, in the 1700s. They are the biggest Kurdish tribe in the Middle East with approximately 4 million people and they speak Sorani. They ruled the Ardalan Principality until the 1860s.
context_section_description: Leaders and politicians
  Mohamed Pasha Jaff, a Kurdish King and supreme chief of the Jaff tribe, he built Sherwana Castle in 1734.
  Osman Pasha Jaff, (born 1846) a Kurdish King, leader of the Jaff tribe, and married to Adela Khanum of the old Ardalan tribe.
  Adela Jaff (1847–1924), called Princess of the Brave by the British; married Kurdish King Osman Pasha Jaff, was famous for her role in the region, namely in the era of Shiekh Mahmood Al-Jaff Hafeed.
  Ahmed Mukhtar Jaff (1898–1934), was a member of Iraqi parliament and mayor of Halabja.
  Nawzad Dawood Beg Jaff (also known as Nozad Dawood Fattah Al Jaff), Chairman of North Bank Iraq and leader of the Jaff tribe.
  Hanna Jaff (born 1986), American born Mexican-Kurd Deputy Secretary of Immigrants in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico, and Honorary Representative of Garmiyan in Latin America.
  Artists, poets, singer
  Khanai Qobadi Jaff (ca.1700-1759), an 18th-century Jaff poet.
  Nali Jaff (1797 or 1800-1855 or 1856), poet who contributed to making Sorani literary language of southern Kurdistan.
  Abdulla Goran Jaff (1904-1962).
  Tara Jaff (born 1958), singer and musician specializing in harp.
  Scholars and academics
  Sardar Jaff, Natural Language Processing.
  Bahrouz Al-Jaff, Molecular Microbiology.
  Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970), archaeologist and museum curator.
caption: Mahmud Pasha Jaff in his bedroom.
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