page_title: Sulaymaniyah
section_title: People from Sulaymaniyah
hierarchical_section_title: Sulaymaniyah / People from Sulaymaniyah
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheikh Mahmoud - Kurdistan's King (1918-1922)
context_page_description: Sulaymaniyah, also called Slemani, is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region, Iraq, not far from the Iran-Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters.
  From its foundation Sulaymaniyah was always a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nalî, Mahwi, and Piramerd. The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded in 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban, who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. Sulaymaniyah was the capital of the historic principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.
context_section_description: Khâlid-i Baghdâdî (1779–1827), sufist and Islamic thinker
  Salim (1800–1866), poet.
  Nalî (1800–1873), poet.
  Mahwi (1830–1906), poet.
  Said Pasha Kurd, (1834–1907), Ottoman statesman.
  Mustafa Zihni Pasha (1838–1911), Ottoman official, Kurdish nationalist.
  Saeb (1854–1910), poet.
  Şerif Pasha, (1865–1951), Ottoman diplomat, ambassador and statesman.
  Mustafa Yamulki (1866–1936), Minister of Education in the Kingdom of Kurdistan.
  Haji Mala Saeed Kirkukli Zada (1866–1937), Minister of Justice in the Kingdom of Kurdistan.
  Piramerd Tawfeq Mahmoud Hamza, (1867–1950), poet and journalist.
  Mevlanzade Rifat Bey, (1869 - 1930), journalist and politician.
  Muhamed Amin Zaki (1880–1948), historian, statesman and politician.
  Mufti Penjweni (1881–1952), poet.
  Taufiq Wahby (1891–1984), linguist, politician and poet.
  Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji (1896–1958), journalist and poet.
  Najmadeen Mala (1898–1962), writer, journalist and teacher
  Ahmad Mukhtar Baban (1900–1976), prime Minister of Iraq 1958.
  Abdulla Goran (1904–1962), founder of modern Kurdish poetry
  Ibrahim Ahmad (1914–2000), novelist, poet and translator.
  Jamal Nebez (born 1933), linguist.
  Nawshirwan Mustafa (1944–2017), politician, historian and media proprietor.
  Ahmad Hardi (1922–2006), poet.
  Sherko Bekas (1940–2013), contemporary poet.
  Bachtyar Ali (born 1960), novelist
  Mariwan Kanie (born 1966), intellectual.
  Barham Salih (born 1960) politician.
  Muhamad Salih Dilan (1927–1990), musician and poet.
  Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), politician.
  Dilshad Meriwani, (1947–1989), actor, poet, writer and journalist.
  Rizgar Mohammed Amin (born 1958), judge.
  Mahmoud Othman (born 1938), politician.
  Xalîd Reşîd (born 1968), musician
  Taha Baban, author, actor and lawyer
  Adnan Karim, (born 1953), artist
  Shwan Kamal, (born 1967), artist and sculptor.
  Sara Omar, (born 1986), author, human rights activist and poet.
caption: Mahmud Barzanji
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