Ordîxanê Celîl (''Ordikhan Dzhasimovich Dzhalilov'' or ''Ordikhan-e Jalil'' or ''Ordikhane Dzhalil'' ) (1932–2007) was a

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scholar. Born in

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to a Kurds–Yazidi family, he entered the

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department of the University of Yerevan in 1951 and graduated in 1956. He was appointed as the Kurdish studies chair of the University of Leningrad in 1957. He worked for three years at the Radio of Yerevan as its first Kurdish

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. He visited

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in 1958, where he conducted research on the

language. For many years, he worked on collecting Kurdish folk stories and poetry alongside his brother Jalile Jalil and sister ''Cemîle Celîl''. His archive contains more than 100,000 Kurdish

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s many of which are still unpublished.

Books

#Şiyêr û poêm, Poetry, 114 pp., Haip'ethrat Publishers, Armenia, 1959. #Stranên Lîrîkên Gelêrîyên Kurd (Kurdish Lyrical and Folkloric Songs), 1964. #Курдский героический эпос "Златорукий хан": Дымдым (Dimdim Epic Poetry), 206 pp., Nauka Publishers, 1967. #Kurdskie poslovitsy i pogovorki: na kurdskom i russkom iazykakh (Kurdish Proverbs and Sayings, 454 pp., Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury Publishers, Moscow, 1972. (with

Celîlê Celîl Celîlê Celîl (1936–present) is a Kurdish historian, writer and Kurdologist. He was born in Yerevan in family of Kurds-Yazidi and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad. He wrote his thesis regarding th ...

) #Çîrokên Cimaeta Kurda (Tales of Kurdish people), 234 pp., Haiastan Publishers, 1974. #Kela Dimdim (Castle of Dimdim). #Xanê Dest Zêrîn (Golden hand Khan). #Biwêj û Gotinên Pêşiyanên Kurd (Kurdish proverbs). #Zargotina Kurda (Kurdish Folklore), co-authored with

, Vol. I, II, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1978. #Celîl, O., C. Celîl & Z. Celîl, ''Kurdskie skazki, legendy i predaniia'' (Kurdish Fairy Tales and Legends), Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1989. #Zargotina Kurdên Sûriyê (Folklore of Kurds in Syria), co-authored with Ahmet Omer and Celîlê Celîl, Jîna Nû Publishers, Uppsala, Sweden, 1989, . #Dastanên Kurdî, coauthored with Celîlê Celîl, 244 pp., Zêl Publishers, Istanbul, 1994. #Istoricheskie pesni kurdov (Kurdish Folk Songs), 816 pp., Institut vostokovedeniia (Rossiiskaia akademiia), Orientalia Publishers, Saint Petersburg, 2003.

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AmidaKurd (in Kurdish). {{DEFAULTSORT:Celil, Ordixane 1932 births 2007 deaths Kurdish writers Armenian Yazidis