Khana Qubadi (, 1700–1759) was a

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

poet from the Jaff tribe who wrote in Gorani. He belonged to the Hawrami school of poetry in the

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principality and lived in Derne which was the capital of Derteng,

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and Bajelan dynasties which is located in modern-day

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. He first lived in

, but had to flee to neighboring

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because of his translations of the

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to Gorani.

Works

His main published work is ''Şîrîn û Xesrew '' (

Shirin and Khasraw Khosrow and Shirin ( fa, خسرو و شیرین) is the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love ...

), written in 1740. Despite being a master in

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and

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, he was in favor of using Kurdish as indicated in one of his poems: Xanay Qubadî, Şîrîn û Xesrew
(Saxkirdnewey Ferheng û Pîşekî: Muhemmed Mela Kerîm)
Korrî Zanyarî Kurd, Bexda 1975.

References

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