Hemin Mukriyani
Kurdish poet and scholar (1921–1986)
Seyed Mohammad-Amin Shaikholislami Mukri (Sorani Kurdish: هێمن موکریانی), better known by his pen name Hemin Mukriyani or Hêmin Mukriyanî (1921–1986), was a Kurdish poet, journalist, translator, and literary critic.
He was born in the village of Lachin, northwest of Mahabad, in 1921. After attending Saadat Elementary School in Mahabad, he completed his religious education at the khanaqah of Shaikh Borhan in the village of Sharafkand. In 1942, Hemin joined the Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd (Society for the Revival of Kurdistan), one of the earliest modern Kurdish political organizations advocating Kurdish self-rule.
During the Second World War, following the Soviet occupation of parts of northwestern Iran, including much of Azerbaijan and Kurdish regions, the organization evolved into the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. In 1946, the party proclaimed the Republic of Mahabad with Mahabad as its capital. Mukriyani, together with his close friend Abdurrahman Sharafkandi (Hejar), was recognized as one of the national poets of the republic. He also served as secretary to Haji Baba Sheikh, the prime minister of the republic.
Following the collapse of the Republic of Mahabad in December 1946, Hemin fled to Sulaymaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he was briefly imprisoned before later being released. After the 11 March 1970 agreement, which temporarily ended the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, he settled in Baghdad and became an active member of the Kurdish Scientific Academy.
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