Mahmud ibn Ali ibn Naziri known by his pen name Hijri and his title Dede/Dade (1881 - 11 December 1952) was an

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poet and writer.
Born in Kirkuk and grew up into a Kakaie family and taught by them. He started working as teacher in his hometown and in Baghdad. In 1927, he was assigned to manage ''Jaridat al Karkuk'', after which he was appointed health inspector in the municipality department in 1928.
He died in his hometown. He wrote primarily in Turkish, but also wrote in

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. He has worked in translation and history writing as well. The poet was usually quite secretive about his religious beliefs and practices: when asked by outsiders, he would often claim to be

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Sunni or, sometimes,

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Shi'a. According to some sources, Hijri Dede died in 1952.

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1952 deaths People from Kirkuk 19th-century poets of Ottoman Iraq 20th-century Iraqi poets Persian-language poets Iraqi Turkish poets Iraqi translators Iraqi schoolteachers Iraqi multilingual poets 1881 births 20th-century translators Iraqi Yarsanis {{Iraq-poet-stub