Ali Hariri
{{Short description|16th-century Kurdish poet}}
Ali Hariri or Sheikh Ahmed Bohtani{{Cite book|last=Kaymak|first=Wedat|url=https://bnk.institutkurde.org/images/pdf/F15HG3LP6E.pdf|title=Les éternels exilés|publisher=Association des cineastes kurdes en exil|year=1990|location=Paris|pages=73|language=fr|access-date=24 April 2021}} ({{Langx|ku|Elî Herîrî}}; 1009 in Harir – 1079/1080){{Cite journal|last=Hajj|first=Hussain|date=2018|title=Transformations Of Kurdish Music In Syria: Social And Political Factors|url=https://polen.itu.edu.tr/bitstream/11527/18141/1/513167.pdf|journal=Istanbul Technical University Department of Musicology and Music Theory|page=20}}{{Cite book|last=Mccarus|first=Ernest Nasseph|title=A Kurdish Grammar: Descriptive Analysis of the Kurdish of Sulaimaniya, Iraq|publisher=American Council of Learned Societies|year=1958|pages=6}} was a Kurdish poet who wrote in Kurmanji and considered a pioneer in classical Kurdish Sufi literature and a founder of the Kurdish literary tradition.{{Cite book|last=al-Karadaghi|first=Mustafa|title=Kurdistan Times|pages=190}}{{Cite journal|last=Özel|first=Ahmet|date=2016|title=FAKĪ-yi TEYRÂN|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/faki-yi-teyran|journal=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|language=tr}}
Biography
Hariri was born in 1009 in the village of Harir, part of the Hakkâri district of Bohtan.{{Cite web|last=Cemal|first=Onursal|date=1995|title=Kurdiska mannen höjer sin röst!|url=http://www.arsivakurd.org/images/arsiva_kurd/kovar/jin_kovara_jinan/jin_kovara_jinan_2_3.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=24 April 2021|website=Arsivakurd.org|publisher=Kurdistans Kvinnoförbund|page=34|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424101057/http://www.arsivakurd.org/images/arsiva_kurd/kovar/jin_kovara_jinan/jin_kovara_jinan_2_3.pdf |archive-date=2021-04-24 }} He was first mentioned by Ahmad Khani in the 17th century, and limited information is known about him. His poetry focused on love, love for Kurdistan, its beautiful nature and the beauty of its people. The poems were popular and spread all over Kurdistan. According to historian Muhibbî, Hariri moved to Damascus to study and had a son named Şex Ehmed (d. 1048) who possibly was a mullah and a faqih.{{Cite book|last=Yûsuf|first=Abdulreqîb|title=Şaîrên klasîk ên Kurd|publisher=JM Weşanen Jîna Nû|year=1988|isbn=9197092789|pages=13–15|language=ku}}
He died in Cizre and his grave is considered a sacred place and visited by numerous people every year.
See also
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