Mahwi
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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
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- Muslim scholar.name
- Mahwi
- Muslim scholar.native_name
- مەحوی
- Muslim scholar.birth_date
- 1830
- Muslim scholar.birth_place
- Sulaymaniyah
- Muslim scholar.death_date
- 1906
- Muslim scholar.death_place
- Sulaymaniyah
- Muslim scholar.era
- 19th century
- Muslim scholar.main_interests
- Sufism, Kurdish literature, Irfan
- Muslim scholar.notable_works
- Diwan of Mahwi
- Muslim scholar.religion
- Islam
- Muslim scholar.denomination
- Sunni
- Muslim scholar.jurisprudence
- Shafi'i
- Muslim scholar.creed
- Ash'ari
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Iraq
- Place of birth
- Sulaymaniyah
- Place of death
- Sulaymaniyah
- Occupation
- poet
- Image
- Statue of Kurdish poet Mahwi in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1830-01-01
- date of death
- 1909-01-01
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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 human condition and existential problems, such as questions about the meaning of life.
==Works== A collection of his poems has been published several times. Dîwanî Mehwî, Slemani, 1922. Dîwanî Mehwî, Edited by Jamal Muhammad Muhammad Amin, Serkewtin Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 1984. Dîwanî Mehwî, Edited and Analyised by Mala Abdolkarimi Modarres and Mohammed Mala Karim, Hissam Publishers, Baghdad, 1977 and 1984.
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