Mahwi
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| Gender | Female |
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| Born | Sulaymaniyah |
| Iraq | |
| Died | Sulaymaniyah |
| Iraq | |
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| ID | 993103 |
Mahwi Life story
Mahwi was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. He became a judge in the court of Slemani, in today's Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abdul-Hamid II in 1883.