Kurdish-language Iraqi poets

Iraqi Kurdish poet (1940–2013)

Turkish poet of Kurdish ancestry (1904–1962)

Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

Iraqi Kurdish poet and political activist (1918–1948)

Kurdish poet

Mahwi ( Mehwî; full name: مەلا موحەممەد کوڕی عوسمان باڵخی ''Mela Muhemmed 'Usman Ballxî'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. He became a judge in the court of Slemani, in today's Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abdul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqah, an Islamic religious school and mosque, in Slemani and named it after an Ottoman emperor. In his poems, he mainly promotes sufism, but also deals with the h

Iraqi Kurdish poet

Iraqi poet and writer

Iraqi Islamic scholar and poet (1901–2005)

Kurdish astronomer