Yosif Yaska
Yusuf Yaska (1592-1636) was a Kurdish poet, considered, along with Mistefa Bêsaranî, to be one of the early members of Gorani poetry after Mele Perîşan. The content of his ghazals were about love and nature. Little is known about his personal life, yet Minorsky wrote that Yaska was executed by immurement after his master Khan Ahmad Khan Ardalan of Ardalan suspected him of dallying with his wife, daughter of Shah Abbas.
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Yosif Yaska
- Name
- Yusuf Yaska
- Born
- 1592
- Died
- 1636
- Occupation
- poet
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Yusuf Yaska (1592-1636) was a Kurdish poet, considered, along with Mistefa Bêsaranî, to be one of the early members of Gorani poetry after Mele Perîşan. The content of his ghazals were about love and nature. Little is known about his personal life, yet Minorsky wrote that Yaska was executed by immurement after his master Khan Ahmad Khan Ardalan of Ardalan suspected him of dallying with his wife, daughter of Shah Abbas.
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• Name — Yusuf Yaska • Born — 1592 • Died — 1636
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Yaska is the founder of a literary school that focuses more on local poetic traditions, using a decasyllabic meter and a caesura between two rhyming hemistiches. This composition was common in folk poetry in Ardalan. Khana Qubadi would become a major poet in this school.
Poem, Yaska asks
Poem, Yaska asks
A poem by Yaska, translated to English in 2005:
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- 1.Kreyenbroek, Philip G. KURDISH WRITTEN LITERATURE. Encyclopedia Iranica. 2005.
- 2.Chaman Ara, Behrooz. Gurani: practical language or Kurdish literary idiom?. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 45. 4. 3. 2018. 10.1080/13530194.2018.1430536.
- 3.GURĀNI – Encyclopaedia Iranica. www.iranicaonline.org.
- 4.Minorsky, Vladimir. The Guran. Bulletin of the school of oriental and african studies. 93. 1943.
- 5.Kreyenbroek, Philip G. ḴĀNĀ QOBĀDI. Encyclopedia Iranica. 2010.
- 6.Saeedpour, Vera Beaudin. Gorani Poetry. The International Journal of Kurdish Studies. 19. 18. 2005.
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