Ali Hariri

Ali Hariri (1009-1079^[1][2][3][4]) was among the first well-known Kurdish poets who wrote in Kurdish. He was from the Hakkari region of Turkey.

References

1. A Kurdish grammar: descriptive analysis of the Kurdish of Sulaimaniya, Iraq By Ernest Nasseph McCarus, American council of learned societies, 1958, The university of Michigan, see page 6
2. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 2 By University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, JSTOR, 1964, see page 507
3. Mehrdad R. Izady, The Kurds: A Concise Handbook, Taylor & Francis, 1992, ISBN 0-8448-1727-9, p.176
4. Kurdish Literature, Kurdish Academy of Language