Haji Qadir Koyi

Haji Kadiri Koyi ( in Kurdish Heci Qadirê Koyi ) (* 1817, † 1897 in Istanbul) was a Kurdish poet. In his poems he stood up for the national recognition of the Kurds and their education. He lamented the backwardness, religious fanaticism and illiteracy among the Kurds. Koyi encouraged people to take up the science and the challenges of modern society. After Koyi was the one Kurd, who also spoke Kurdish. In his works are the two most common dictionary and writing. He advocated the creation of an independent Kurdistan. Currently Koyis So in the late 19th century were gradually dissolved after the Kurdish principalities of the Ottomans and the Safavids.

Koyi criticized the sheikhs and mullahs very sure that this did nothing for the Kurdish language and the fate of the Kurds. He spent his last years in Istanbul, where he became familiar with the nationalism of other peoples. Although he mostly wrote poetry, he encouraged the Kurds to publish Kurdish-language magazines and newspapers. In Constantinople, Opel, he was the teacher of the family of Bedirxan Beg, who was in 1847 after a rebellion himself in Damascus in exile.

Excerpt

Kurdi axir Bile çi ye eybi? Her kelam heq e niye eybi Ya Legel Farsi çi ferqi heye? Bo çi ew racing e, bo çi em kemiye? German translation: Say what is on the Kurdish so shameful? Only the holy words [ of the Qur'an ] are precious, What then is the Persian the difference? Why is that expensive and this unworthy?

Works

• Diwani Haci Qadiri Koyi, Edited by Hamid Sardar Karim Miran and Mistafa Sharaza, 1986, Baghdad.

Swell

• Farhad Shakely, Classical and modern Kurdish poetry, Uppsala University, Sweden.
• Amir Hassanpour, The Kurdish Experience Template: Web Archive / Maintenance / Nummerierte_Parameter, University of Toronto, Canada.
• Amir Hassanpour, A Stateless Nation's Quest for Sovereignty in the Sky, Free University of Berlin, November 1995.

• Author
• Literature ( Kurdish )
• Kurd
• Born in 1817
• Died in 1897
• Man