Mahwi
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1830 – 1906
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Who was Mahwi?
Mahwi or Mehwîwas one of the most prominenet classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. He became a judge in the court of Sulaimaniyain today's Iraqin 1862which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abd-ul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqahan Islamic religious school and mosquein Sulaimniya and named it after an Ottoman emperor. In his poemshe mainly promotes sufismbut also deals with the human condition and existential problemssuch as questions about the meaning of life.
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