Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi was born in Baghdad in 1863, into a family of Kurdish origin whose father was the city's mufti, and was educated by him. He sat on the education council of Baghdad, directed the provincial printing house and the newspaper al-Zawra, then taught Islamic philosophy in Istanbul. A deputy in the Ottoman parliament for the Nasiriyah region, then for Baghdad, he was appointed to the Iraqi senate by King Faisal I. He died in Baghdad in 1936.

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• Poetryديوان الزهاويJamil Sidqi al-Zahawi · 1924not translated into EnglishLiterature