Marouf Nodeyi or Shaykh Marif Nodeyi (Kurdish: مارفی نۆدێ, 1753–1838 or 1839)[1] was a Kurdish Sufi, poet, and scholar of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[1] He was the author of 59 books and 870 poems.[2]

Biography

Shaykh Marif was born in the village of Node near Sulaymaniyah into a religious family. He studied religion under his father and later on pursued science in Qalachwalan. After his studies, he became a teacher at the Grand Mosque of Sulaymaniyah and also wrote poems.[3]

Shaykh Marif has several works in Islamic studies, and his Ahmadi dictionary, which is a small Arabic and Kurdish dictionary, has been used for many decades in Kurdistan to teach Arabic to young children in Madrasa. Shaykh Marif has authored religious and literary texts in Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish. He was the father of the prominent Sufi Kak Ahmad and an ancestor of Mahmud Barzanji.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nūdahī, Muḥammad Maʻrūf ibn Muṣṭafá, or 1753-1838 or 1839; ‏النودهي، محمد معروف بن مصطفى. (2018). al-Rawḍah al-ghannā fī al-duʻāʼ bi-asmāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusná. Ūmīd ʻUmar Saʻdūn al-Bāwah Mardīyī, مرديي، اوميد عمر سعدون الباوه، (al-Ṭabʻah al-ūlá ed.). Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah. ISBN 978-2-7451-5071-4. OCLC 1028573117.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ "شێخ مارفی نۆدێ و مێژووی شارباژێر". Rûdaw (in Kurdish). 30 April 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Abdulla, Khalil (12 December 2020). "شێخ مارفی نۆدێ: زانا‌و رووناکبیر". Knwe (in Kurdish). Retrieved 25 August 2021.
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