# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/haji-qadir-koyi
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:28:11.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/haji-qadir-koyi"
name: "Haji Qadir Koyi"
slug: "haji-qadir-koyi"
description: "Haji Qadiri Koyi was a Kurdish poet. He carried on the nationalistic message of Ahmad Khani in his writings. He wanted to enlighten the people and help them to remedy the problems of illiteracy and backwardness and ideas which result from lack of knowledge and religious fanaticism. He encouraged people instead to turn to science and to the realities of modern society in the struggle to liberate and build an independent Kurdistan. According to him, a Kurd is one who speaks Kurdish. In his time, in the late 19th century, the remaining Kurdish principalities had been overthrown by the Ottoman and Persian states. Koyi attacked the shaikhs and mullahs who did not care for the Kurdish language and the notables who ignored the destinies of their people. Living his last years in cosmopolitan Istanbul, he was familiar with the nationalist struggles and the material advancement of modern nations. He constantly advocated use of the Kurdish language. Although his own medium was poetry, he urged the Kurds to publish magazines and newspapers. Calling on the Kurds, in the 1880s, to unite and form their own independent state, he also urged them to use the modern tools such as newspapers and magazines for mass communication. The first Kurdish newspaper, Kurdistan, was published in Cairo in 1898, a year after Haji Qadir's death. Farangis Ghaderi who has studied his poetry in her PhD dissertation argues that modern Kurdish poetry emerged in the late nineteenth century and with Koyî's poetry. She also argues that Hacî Qadirî Koyî should be considered the originator of Kurdish nationalism."
tagline: "Iraqi Kurdish poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Statue_of_Kurdish_poet_and_writer_Ahmadi_Xani_in_Sulaymaniyah%2C_Kurdistan%2C_Iraq.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1817"
deathDate: "1897"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.875918666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Haci Kadir Koyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "حجي قادر كويي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "حاجی قادری کۆیی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadschi_Qadiri_Koyi"
    title: "Hadschi Qadiri Koyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Qadiri_Koyi"
    title: "Haji Qadiri Koyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "حاجی قادر کویی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hec%C3%AE_Qadir%C3%AA_Koy%C3%AE"
    title: "Hecî Qadirê Koyî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Qadir_Koyi"
    title: "Haji Qadir Koyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Qadir_Koyi"
    title: "Haji Qadir Koyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335448"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump