The following is a list of Kurdish philosophers.

9th century

Ziryab Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi, better known as Ziryab, Zeryab, or Zaryab ( 789– 857) ( ar, أبو الحسن علي ابن نافع, زریاب, rtl=yes) ( fa, زَریاب ''Zaryāb''), was a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teach ...

11th century

Ali Hariri Ali Hariri or Sheikh Ahmed Bohtani (; 1009 in Harir, Iraq, Harir – 1079/1080) was a Kurds, Kurdish poets, poet who wrote in Kurmanji and considered a pioneer in classical Kurdish Sufism, Sufi literature and a founder of the Kurdish literary trad ...

Al-Mawardi Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn Muḥammad al-Māwardī (), known in Latin as Alboacen (972–1058 CE), was an Islamic jurist of the Shafi'i school most remembered for his works on religion, government, the caliphate, and public and constitutional law ...

* Al-Jazari *

Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir ‘Adī ibn Musāfir ( ku, شێخ ئادی, translit=Şêx Adî, ar, الشيخ عدي بن مسافر born 1072-1078, died 1162) was a Muslim sheikh of Arab origin, considered a Yazidi saint. The Yazidis consider him as an avatar of Tawûsê M ...

12th century

Fexredîn Sheikh or Malak Fakhr ad-Dīn () is a holy figure venerated in Yazidism, he is considered one of the Seven Divine Beings, to all of whom God assigned the World's affairs, and his earthly incarnation is considered one of the four sons of Ezdina Mi ...

13th century

Ibn al-Salah Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd il-Raḥmān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shahrazūrī () (c. 1181 CE/577 AH – 1245/643), commonly known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist and the author of the seminal '' Intro ...

Ibn al-Mustawfi Mubarak Ibn Ahmad Sharaf al-Din Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Lakhmi al-Irbili (, b. 1169 – d. 1239), a famous Muslim historian of Erbil, who was born in the ancient citadel of Erbil. He wrote in several areas, history, literature and language. His masterp ...

Ibn Khallikan Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān) ( ar, أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 1211 – 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a 13th century Shafi'i Islamic scholar w ...

* Abu'l-Fida * Al-Shahrazuri

14th century

* Ibn al-Jazari *

Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi Al-Hafiz Zain al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-'Iraqi ( ar, أبو الفضل زين الدين عبد الرحيم العراقي, 1403-1325) was a renowned Kurdish Shafi'i scholar and was the foremost leading hadith scholar at his time. Biography He i ...

15th century

* Mela Hesenê Bateyî *

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16th century

* Malaye Jaziri *

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi Sharaf al-Din Khan b. Shams al-Din b. Sharaf Beg Bedlisi ( Kurdish: شەرەفخانی بەدلیسی, ''Şerefxanê Bedlîsî''; fa, شرف‌الدین خان بن شمس‌الدین بن شرف بیگ بدلیسی; 25 February 1543 – ) wa ...

* Ali Taramakhi

17th century

Ahmad Khani Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

* Faqi Tayran * Mustafa Besarani

18th century

* Khâlid-i Baghdâdî * Khana Qubadi

19th century

Mahmud Bayazidi Mahmud Bayazidi ( ku, مەحموودی بایەزیدی , Mehmûdê Bazîdî, 1797 Doğubeyazıt – 1859 Erzurum), was a Kurdish people, Kurdish philosopher and polymath from Bayazid in the Ottoman Empire. Early life He was born in Bayazid (pres ...

* Mawlawi Tawagozi *

Nalî Nalî ( ku, نالی), also known as Mallah Xidir Ehmed Şawaysî Mîkayalî ( ku, مەلا خدر (خضر) کوڕی ئەحمەدی شاوەیسی ئاڵی بەگی میکایلی)Keith Hitchins, "NALÎ" in Encyclaopedia Iranica (1800 Shahrizor ...

Mastoureh Ardalan Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan or Mastura Ardalan (1805, Sanandaj − 1848, Sulaymaniyah) was a Kurdish poet, historian, and writer. Biography Ardalan was born in Sanandaj eastern Kurdistan/Iranian Kurdistan and died in Sulaymaniyah south ...

Abdullah Cevdet Abdullah Cevdet ( ota, عبدالله جودت‎; tr, Abdullah Cevdet Karlıdağ; 9 September 1869 – 29 November 1932) was a Kurdish intellectual and physician in the Ottoman Empire. He was one of the founders of the Committee of Union an ...

Riza Talabani Sheikh Riza Talabani ( ku, شێخ ڕەزای تاڵەبانی, Şêx Rizayê Talebanî) was a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic. Most of his poetry consists of Satire, Ribaldry ...

Mulla Effendi Mulla Abu Bakr Effendi, also Mulla Effendi (also spelled Mala Fandi), ( ku, Mele Fendî) ( ar, ملا أفندي) also Abu Bakr IV or Küçük Mulla (1863 - December 31, 1942) was a senior Kurdish-Iraqi Muslim Scholar, Islamic philosopher, sch ...

* Wafayi *

Mahwi Mahwi ( ku, مەحوی ''Mehwî''; full name: مەلا موحەمەد کوڕی عوسمان بەڵخی ''Mala Mohammed Osman Ballkhi'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studie ...

20th century

* Said Nursî * Baba Mardoukh Rohanee * Qanate Kurdo * Muhammad Amin Zaki * Abdul Karim Mudarris * Muhammad Kurd Ali *

Abdurrahman Sharafkandi Abd al-Rahman ( ar, عبد الرحمن, translit=ʿAbd al-Raḥmān or occasionally ; DMG ''ʿAbd ar-Raḥman''; also Abdul Rahman) is a male Arabic Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' Abd'', '' ...

* Celadet Bedir Khan

References

* Muhammad Amin Zaki, Meşahirê Kurd û Kurdistan (Kürt ve Kürdistan Ünlüleri), Öz-Ge Yayınları, 2005 {{ISBN, 975786112X, 9789757861126

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