Reza Talabani

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Sheikh Reza Talabani ( Kurdish شێخ ڕەزای تاڵەبانی Şêx Rezayi Talebanî ; * 1835 in Kirkuk ; † 1910 ) was a Kurdish poet from what is now Iraq . Talabani wrote his poems in Kurdish and Turkish as well as in Persian and Arabic . His works give a good picture of life and history in Kirkuk. His poems mostly consist of satire . In one of his poems, he recalls his childhood in the Principality of Shahrazor , which the Kurds today consider to be an important proof of the Kurdish identity of the city of Kirkuk.

As a young man, Talabani went to Constantinople . On the way there he visited the grave of the Kurdish Sufi Sheikh Nurredin Brifkani . At the grave he recited a long poem in Persian. The poem told how he came to the country of rum from the Kurdish principality of Scharezur, whose capital was Kirkuk . Rum was the name of the former (East) Roman Anatolia , whose rulers at that time were the Ottomans . In 1879 the principality of Scharezur was dissolved by the Ottomans and added to the Vilayet of Mosul . Talabani expressed his sadness and disappointment in a Turkish poem.

Sheikh Reza Talabani is considered one of the most important Kurdish poets from Iraq. There are currently seven editions of his poems, 1935 and 1946 Baghdad 1935, 1946 Iran, 1996 in Sweden, 1999 in Silemani and 2000 in Erbil.

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