Jamīl Sidqī az-Zahāwī

D̲j̲amīl Ṣidḳī al-Zahāwī

Jamīl Sidqī az-Zahāwī , also Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi , Cemîl Sidqî Zehawî ( Arabic جميل صدقي الزهاوي, DMG Ǧamīl Ṣidqī az-Zahāwī ; * June 18, 1863 in Baghdad ; † February 23, 1936 ibid) was a neoclassical writer and poet and an important representative of the Nahda in Iraq .

Live and act

Az-Zahawi was in the major clan originally from Sulaymaniyah originating al-Baban born. Since his parents lived separately (his father Faydi was a Mufti of Baghdad, his mother came from the Kurdish upper class), he initially lived with his mother, but was later trained by his father in the classical Arabic language.

At first az-Zahāwī was self-taught in what he called modern sciences and was later appointed to the Majlis al-Ma'arif in Baghdad after teaching there for some time at the school in Sulaimaniyya. He later became director of the state printing company, worked for a newspaper and became a member of the court of appeal.

After traveling abroad, he later came into conflict with the law, was arrested and spent time in prison, later returned to Baghdad and was subsequently appointed professor of Islamic philosophy and Arabic literature at Darülfünun in Istanbul . After Iraq's independence in 1921, he was elected to the Iraqi parliament.

Works

Az-Zahāwī published works on various subjects: philosophy, horses and horse racing, space, chess , popular beliefs and a few others. At the age of 40 he discarded these topics and turned completely to poetry and wrote some works on them.

literature

• Wiebke Walter: al-Zahāwī, D̲j̲amīl Ṣidḳī . In: Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition. Vol. 11. Brill, Leiden 2002, pp. 386-387 ( beginning of article ).
• Gottfried Widmer : The ʿirāqic poet Ǧamīl Ṣidqī az-Zahāwī from Baghdād . German Society for Islamic Studies , Berlin 1935.