Nali in the Mirror of Ottoman Documents and Manuscripts

Abstract

Hemin Omar Ahmad Assistant Professor at Soran university-iraq There is still too much study need to be done about Nali in order to fully investigate the history of Kurdish literature in archives and manuscripts of Ottomans. In the past, new results found out about Nali from utilizing manuscripts and orientalists’ reports. However, there is still too much study can be done to study about his works. Based on the new findings of the documents and manuscripts from Ottoman archive, new information has been discovered about this poet as well as new poems of the poet are introduced not included in his previous collections. New findings about: two books of Nali, his relation with some figures and tribes, his affiliation with Naqishbandi order, his position among Kurdish personalities during the time of Ottomans, the translation of his poems to other foreign languages, his scholarship states and the certainty of the location of his graveyard are all mentioned in the current study. He also discusses how Nali's poems have been translated into French and Turkish. However, Nali has been mentioned with great importance in both Turkish and Kurdish newspapers during the Ottoman period. All this information puts another stone on the wall of research in Nali's poems.

Keywords

• nali
• the prince of mecca
• translated poems
• naqishbandi
• ottoman documents