Home›Open Questions›When was Sultan Sahak born?Open QuestionsWhen was Sultan Sahak born?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "When was Sultan Sahak born?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/when-was-sultan-sahak-born.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). When was Sultan Sahak born?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/when-was-sultan-sahak-bornCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-when-was-sultan-sahak-born, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {When was Sultan Sahak born?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/when-was-sultan-sahak-born}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionSultan Sahak's life is remembered through Yarsani devotional narrative rather than documented biography, and the Kalam-e Saranjam's own Perdiwari texts do not supply datable historical reference points; scholarship's own fifteenth century placement is explicitly provisional, and other readings diverge by centuries.What would resolve this An external historical or archaeological record from the Hawraman region independently datable and naming Sultan Sahak, distinct from the devotional Kalam-e Saranjam tradition that presently supplies the only accounts of his life.OpenHistory of the Yarsan/Ahl-e Haqq tradition, Kurdish historyM. Reza Hamzeh'ee, The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish CommunityCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSultan Sahak, Historical Figures Well-attested Source The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish CommunityM. Reza Hamzeh'eetier 1SourcesThe Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-Historical Study of a Kurdish Communitytier 1M. Reza Hamzeh'ee, Klaus Schwarz Verlag (Islamkundige Untersuchungen, Bd. 138), 1990Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year