Iraqi Turkmen historian, folklorist, journalist, translator, and poet
1913–1990
Shakir Sabir Zabit was an Iraqi Turkmen historian, folklorist, journalist, and translator whose poetry is also documented in an academic bibliography. He was born in Kirkuk in 1913. Because of his father's employment, he spent part of his childhood in Kifri before returning to Ki...
Shakir Sabir Zabit was an Iraqi Turkmen historian, folklorist, journalist, and translator whose poetry is also documented in an academic bibliography. He was born in Kirkuk in 1913. Because of his father's employment, he spent part of his childhood in Kifri before returning to Kirkuk for middle and secondary school. He graduated from the military college as a second lieutenant in 1938, served in the Iraqi Army's signals branch, commanded a wireless signals battalion, and retired in 1959. He then devoted himself to Iraqi and Turkmen history, Kirkuk folklore and press history, and translation. He belonged to Iraq's writers, historians, and translators organizations. In 1963 he was a founder and concession holder of the folklore journal Al-Turath al-Sha'bi; from 1966 he published the bilingual Arabic–Turkmen newspaper Iraq. The Union of Arab Historians awarded him its Arab Historian Medal in 1987. He endowed his library of about nine thousand volumes for the use of researchers. He died on the morning of 31 January 1990. Bibliographic authority records and a peer-reviewed biographical study support the dates 1913–1990 and Kirkuk as his birthplace, although weaker secondary sources give conflicting birth details.
Muhammad ibn Sulayman, known by the pen name Fuzuli, was born around 1480 somewhere in Arab Iraq, then under Aq Qoyunlu rule. His exact birthplace is unknown. Najaf or Karbala are ...
The poet is known as Seyyid Imadaddin Nasimi. Some sources give his personal name as Seyyid Ali ibn Seyyid Muhammad, but both his name and the details of his birth remain historica...
Abdullatif Imran Benderoglu was an Iraqi Turkmen poet, writer, journalist, translator, and folklorist. Born in Tuz Khurmatu in 1937, he completed his primary and middle education i...
