Mahwi

Also known as Mehwi

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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date of birth: 1830-01-01
date of death: 1909-01-01

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==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.