Saqiyya

The Saqiyya house is that of Shuja al-Din Babakr, emir of the Saqiyya Kurds of Daquq near Kirkuk. The Mamluk scholar Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari, writing in the 1340s, described him as a defender of his faith who fought for his own party, at the head of a tribe of more than seven hundred men.