Sheikh Rezza Talabani

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name = Sheikh Rezza Talabani


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pseudonym = Rezza Talabani
birthdate = 1835
birthplace = Kirkuk, Iraq
deathdate = 1910
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occupation = Poet
nationality = Kurdish
period = (?) – (1910)
genre = Satire, Ribaldry, Flyting and Creative Insults
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Sheikh Rezza Talabani (Şêx Rezaî Talebanî in Kurdish) (1835-1910), a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Some of Sheikh Rezza's poems considered by some historian as a credible testimony to the history of the city of Kirkuk. Most of his poetry consist of Satire, Ribaldry, Flyting and creative insults.The poet in one of his famous poems recalled his childhood in the Kurdish Emirate of Baban before it was ruled by either the Persians or the Ottomans. that poem is considered by some Kurdish historian as an importance evidence of the Kurdish identity of Kirkuk city.

As a young man of age twenty-five or so, the poet went to the Ottoman capital,Constantinople, and in the course of his journey, he visited the grave of the Kurdish Sufi, Sheikh Nouradin Brifkani. At the graveside he recited a long poem in Persian, telling of how he had journeyed from Kurdish Emirate of Sharazur, of which Kirkuk was its capital, to visit "The Country of the Rom" as the Kurds used to referred to Turkey at that time, referring to the Turkic migration to Anatolia, thus not being their homeland. In 1879, when the Ottoman Empire annexed the Wilayah of Sharazur to the Wilayah of Mosul, Sheikh Rezza expressed his sadness and disappointment in a poem, in Turkish, in which he told the people that Mosul had now become the capital of their Wilayah and Nafi’i Effendi was the Wali.Sheikh Rezza Talabani is one of the foremost Kurdish poets. To date, seven editions of his poetry have been published: in Baghdad in 1935 and 1946, in Iran, in Sweden in 1996, in As Sulaymaniyah in 1999 and, most recently, in Arbil in 2000.

ee also

*Kurdish Literature
*List of Kurdish Writers
*Kurdish Language

References

# [http://www.geocities.com/mykirkuk/dr.nori.htm The Displacement of the Population of the Kirkuk Region, Dr. Nouri Talabany]