Sheikh Reza Talabani (شێخ ڕهزا تاڵهبانی in Kurdish) (1835-1910), a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Some of Sheikh Reza's poems considered by some historian as a credible testimony to the history of the city of Kirkuk. Most of his poetry consist of Satire, Ribaldry, Flyting and creative insults. The poet in one of his famous poems recalled his childhood in the Kurdish...
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Sheikh Reza Talabani (شێخ ڕهزا تاڵهبانی in Kurdish) (1835-1910), a celebrated Kurdish poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. Talabani wrote his poetry in Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Some of Sheikh Reza's poems considered by some historian as a credible testimony to the history of the city of Kirkuk. Most of his poetry consist of Satire, Ribaldry, Flyting and creative insults. The poet in one of his famous poems recalled his childhood in the Kurdish Emirate of Baban before it was ruled by either the Persians or the Ottomans. that poem is considered by some Kurdish historian as an importance evidence of the Kurdish identity of Kirkuk city.
As a young man of age twenty-five or so, the poet went to the Ottoman capital,Constantinople, and in the course of his journey, he visited the grave of the Kurdish Sufi, Sheikh Nouradin Brifkani. At the graveside he recited a long poem in Persian, telling of how he had journeyed from Kurdish Emirate of Sharazur, of which Kirkuk was its capital, to visit...
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