“Kurdish poets and praise the people of the house”

Abstract

Shiism spread among the Kurds, princes and commoners, and the influence of Shiite beliefs appeared in many Kurdish antiquities and literature, especially in the field of poetry, as their poems contained a lot of praise for the Ahl al-Bayt and the Twelver imams, as well as declaring their affiliation to the Shiites. Their productions had a clear impact on the literature praising the imams.

   The sources recorded the traces of many Kurdish princes and poets within their handling of the issue of the Imamate and their love for them, as well as some events that are considered ideological postulates among the Shiites, such as talking about the Day of Ghadir and praising Fatima, the daughter of the Messenger (PBUH) and her sons. Through this study, we will stop at six Kurdish poets who were pioneers in this field.

    The Kurds have contributed to building the Islamic civilization in various fields, and the cultural, intellectual and literary aspects were the most rich. In the field of poetry and literature, a group of poets appeared among them, and there are a number of them who were princes, leaders and jurists and at the same time writers and poets, and a number of them composed poems in praise of the imams And the people of the house, especially Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, and their sectarian tendencies dominated them in the organization of those poems, and we received a few of those poetic verses, in addition to the effects that belong to the owners of poetic verses that praise the imams and their household