Qazi Muhammad (Kurdish: قازی محەممەد, romanized: Qazî Mihemed, Persian: قاضی محمد; 1 May 1893 – 31 March 1947[1]) was an Iranian Kurdish religious and political leader who founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and headed the short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad.

[5] Qazi Muhammad later became a member of the Komala Zhian I Kurd, a leading Kurdish organization in Iran at the time supported by the Soviets, in April 1945.

[3] Muhammad acted as the President of the Republic of Mahabad, which was founded in January 1946, and declared publicly in March of the same year.

In April 1946, with the support of the Soviets, Muhammad signed a peace treaty with Ja'far Pishevari of the Azerbaijan People's Government in which they exchanged assurances that the Azerbaijani and Kurdish minorities rights in each republic would be preserved.

One of his sons, Ali Qazi, was an active member in the Kurdish movement, he died 2022 and was laid to rest in Kalar, Southern Kurdistan close to the tomb of his sister Maryam and her husband Serdar Jaff, the famed lion of Kurdistan, his lifetime best friend.