# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wafaei
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:49.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wafaei"
name: "Wafaei"
slug: "wafaei"
description: "Wafaei or Wefayî,, was a Kurdish poet. His real name was Abdurrehîm. He was born in Mahabad in present-day north-western Iran. He finished religious studies in Mahabad and became a cleric, and a teacher in the local school. He moved to Sulaimaniya in 1900 and stayed there for a while. He travelled to Mecca three times, the last one in 1902. He was accompanied by the Kurdish poet Piramerd. During his last pilgrimage, he became ill and died in Medina."
tagline: "Kurdish poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wafayi_%E2%80%94_poet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1844"
deathDate: "1902"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.37
  momentum:             5.48913043478261
  historical:           7.676926666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vafoiy"
    title: "Vafoiy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A"
    title: "وفائي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%95%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "وەفایی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wefayi"
    title: "Wefayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafayi"
    title: "Wafayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C"
    title: "وفایی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wefay%C3%AE"
    title: "Wefayî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafaei"
    title: "Wafaei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vefayi"
    title: "Vefayi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395684"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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