1830 - 1906
Mahwi Iraqi Poet
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Details
| Birthday |
30th November, 1829
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| Birthplace |
Balkh, Slemani
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| Died |
1906
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| Place of Death |
Slemani
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| Nationality |
Iraqi
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| Occupation Text |
Poet, linguist, and Islamic scholar
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| Occupation |
Poet
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Mahwi (Kurdish: مەحوی Mehwî; full name: مەلا موحەمەد کوڕی عوسمان بەڵخی Mala Mohammed Osman Ballkhi) (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.
