Mahwi
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Mahwi or Mehwî (Mala Muhammad Mela Osman Ballkhi), (1830-1906), was a Kurdish poet and sufi. He studied in Sablakh and Sinne. He became a judge in the court of Sulaimaniya in 1862. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abd-ul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqah in Sulaimniya and named it after the Ottoman sultan. In his poems, he mainly promotes sufism.
[edit] Works
A collection of his poems has been published several times.
- Dîwanî Mehwî, Sulaimaniya, 1922.
- Dîwanî Mehwî, Edited by Jamal Muhammad Muhammad Amin, Sarkewtin Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 1984.
- Dîwanî Mehwî, Edited and Analyised by Mala Abdolkarimi Modarres and Muhammad Mala Karim, Hissam Publishers, Baghdad, 1977 and 1984.
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