Saqiyya

The Saqiyya were a Kurdish tribe around Karajin and Daquq, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Their emir was Shuja al-Din Babakr.

Writing in the 1340s, the Mamluk scholar Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari counted more than seven hundred men under Babakr, whom he described as a defender of his faith. After the battle of Chaldiran in 1514, Kirkuk came under the Kurdish emirate of Soran; Baban took the city in 1694.