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Literature

From Melayê Cizîrî and Ehmedê Xanî to the modern novel.

  • Melayê Cizîrî

    Classical Sufi poet

  • Ehmedê Xanî

    Mem û Zîn, 1692

  • Nalî

    Baban-school poet of Sorani

  • Hacî Qadirê Koyî

    Precursor of Kurdish nationalism in poetry

  • Mastoureh Ardalan

    Poet and historian, 1805 to 1848

  • Abdulla Goran

    Father of modern Sorani poetry

  • Cegerxwîn

    Kurmanji poet

  • Sherko Bekas

    Sorani poet

  • Mehmed Uzun

    The modern Kurmanji novel, written in exile in Sweden

  • Bachtyar Ali

    Novelist

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  1. Michiel Leezenberg (2019). Language, Kingship, and Nation: The Ambiguous Politics of Ehmedê Xanî’s Mem û Zîn. Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.33182/ks.v7i1.487
  2. Marouf Cabi (2023). Sherko Bekas and the Emergence of Postnational Kurdish Literature. Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature. DOI 10.1515/9783110634686-005
  3. Mahmudi A, Veisi H (2023). Automatic meter classification of Kurdish poems.. PLoS One. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0280263
  4. Jon E. Bullock (2023). Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations. Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature. DOI 10.1515/9783110634686-007
  5. Sangar Qadir Sheikh Mohammed (2024). Characteristics of contemporary Kurdish poetry such as the poems of Sabah Ranjdar. Twejer. DOI 10.31918/twejer.2471.07

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  1. Language, Kingship, and Nation: The Ambiguous Politics of Ehmedê Xanî’s Mem û Zîn

    Michiel Leezenberg · 2019 · Kurdish Studies

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  2. Sherko Bekas and the Emergence of Postnational Kurdish Literature

    Marouf Cabi · 2023 · Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

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  3. Automatic meter classification of Kurdish poems.

    Mahmudi A, Veisi H · 2023 · PLoS One

    ArticleEurope PMCarXivOpen access

  4. Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations

    Jon E. Bullock · 2023 · Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

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  5. Characteristics of contemporary Kurdish poetry such as the poems of Sabah Ranjdar

    Sangar Qadir Sheikh Mohammed · 2024 · Twejer

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  6. Kurdish Poetry from the perspective of the criteria of textuality, Kurdish poetry texts of Central Kurdish dialect as an example

    Nawzad Waqas SAHID, Rebwar Muhammed ISMAIL · 2019 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

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  7. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat.

    2026 · Kurdish Exile Museum

    ArticleKurdish Exile Museum

  8. Aheng Weke Hêmaneke Helbestê: Nimûneya Helbestên Ehmedê Xanî

    Mustafa Ertaş · 2026 · Artuklu Kurdology

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  9. Şewqiyê Xanî li Pey Şopa Ehmedê Xanî: Berawirdkirinek li Ser Mulemme’ên Wan ên Çarzimanî

    Abdurrahman Adak · 2016 · Zenodo

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  10. The poetry of teaching poetry as an experience in Kurdish literature

    Kurdish Department, College of Languages, Salahaddin University, Mohsin Ahmed Omar · 2021 · Twejer

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  11. An Epistemological Look at Persian Poetry in the Courts of Kurdish Poets in the Nineteenth Century

    Yadollah Pashabadi · 2022 · ادبیات تطبیقی

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  12. Cotepeyv di Mem û Zîna Ehmedê Xanî da

    Sevim Hatun Sürücü, Zafer Açar · 2024 · Nubihar Akademi

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