Feqiyê Teyran

Feqiyê Teyran (born Mir Mehemed, Kurdish: فەقیێ تەیران, romanized: Feqiyê Teyran, 1590–1660)[1] was a Kurdish poet who wrote in Kurmanji.[2] He is best known for his work Zembîlfiroş,[3] and is also credited for writing the first literary account of the Battle of Dimdim which took place in 1609 and 1610.[4] He is considered a pioneer in Kurdish Sufi literature and one of the founders of the Kurdish literary tradition with Ali Hariri, Melayê Cizîrî, Mela Huseynê Bateyî and Ehmedê Xanî.[5]

Biography

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The first written information about Teyran stems from Mahmud Bayazidi in the mid-19th century. He was born in the village of Verezuz/Verezor, in Miks, Hakkâri of the Ottoman Empire and graduated from a madrasa. During his studies, he travelled to Hizan, Finik, Heşete and also to Cizre of Bohtan where he could have studied under Melayê Cizîrî. Instead of becoming a mullah, he continued to work on poetry as a profession and would wander around like a dervish and read his poems to the assemblies and madrasas he visited. His father was named Abdullah and Teyran plausibly came from a family of beys since he used the title mir. He died in Miks, but his tombstone was only found in 2013 in the village of Şandis in Hizan.[1][5]

Style and legacy

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Poems of Teyran which have been described as 'colorful' have subsequently been used in Kurdish folk music.[6] He wrote in plain language, used folklore elements and drew attention to mysticism. Subjects included divine love, knowledge, wisdom, female beauty, nature and the waḥdat al-wujūd. His poems were written in prosody and he preferred quatrains over couplets.[5]

Works

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Zembîlfiroş, which would become his most important work and based on a true love story.

References

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  1. ^ a b Omarkhali, Khanna (2011). "Yezidi religious oral poetic literature: Status, formal characteristics and genre analysis". Scrinium. 7–8 (2). Brill Publishers: 155. doi:10.1163/18177565-90000247.
  2. ^ Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (2005). "Kurdish written literature". Encyclopedia Iranica.
  3. ^ "1 زەمبیلفرۆش كێیە و چۆن گەیشتە باتیفا". Wishe. November 1, 2016.
  4. ^ Hassanpour, Amir (1995). "DIMDIM". Encyclopedia Iranica. VII.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Özel, Ahmet (2016). "FAKĪ-yi TEYRÂN". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
  6. ^ Leezenberg, Michiel (2020). "Between Islamic Learning and Philological Nationalism: Mullah Mahmûdê Bayazîdî's Auto-ethnography of the Kurds". Die Welt des Islams. 6 (4). Brill Publishers: 433–472. doi:10.1163/15700607-00600A09. hdl:11245.1/a4ce3840-01e3-49d4-b822-e6b49849a5df.

Further reading

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