Ali Hariri or Sheikh Ahmed Bohtani[1] (
Kurdish: Elî Herîrî; 1009 in
Harir – 1079/1080)[2][3] was a
Kurdishpoet who wrote in
Kurmanji and considered a pioneer in classical Kurdish
Sufi literature and a founder of the Kurdish literary tradition.[4][5]
Biography
Hariri was born in 1009 in the village of
Harir, part of the
Hakkâri district of
Bohtan.[2][6] He was first mentioned by
Ahmad Khani in the 17th century, and limited information is known about him.[4] His poetry focused on love, love for
Kurdistan, its beautiful nature and the beauty of its people. The poems were popular and spread all over Kurdistan.[1] According to historian
Muhibbî, Hariri moved to
Damascus to study and had a son named Şex Ehmed (d. 1048) who possibly was a
mullah and a
faqih.[7]
He died in
Cizre and his grave is considered a sacred place and visited by numerous people every year.[1]
^Mccarus, Ernest Nasseph (1958). A Kurdish Grammar: Descriptive Analysis of the Kurdish of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. American Council of Learned Societies. p. 6.
^
abal-Karadaghi, Mustafa. Kurdistan Times. p. 190.
^Özel, Ahmet (2016).
"FAKĪ-yi TEYRÂN". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
^Cemal, Onursal (1995).
"Kurdiska mannen höjer sin röst!"(PDF). Arsivakurd.org (in Swedish). Kurdistans Kvinnoförbund. p. 34.
Archived(PDF) from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
^Yûsuf, Abdulreqîb (1988). Şaîrên klasîk ên Kurd (in Kurdish). JM Weşanen Jîna Nû. pp. 13–15.
ISBN9197092789.