HACÎ QADIRÊ KOYÎ: THE FOUNDER AND SECOND PERSON OF THE KURDISH NATIONAL LITERARY CANON

Abstract

The national literary canon is one of the points of connection of literature and politics that has been invented in the modern era to represent the cultural identity of a nation. For the first time in Kurdish literature, Haji Qadir Koyi laid the foundation of the national literary canon and he introduced Xani as the father of the Kurdish national literary canon and himself as the second person of this canon. This article focuses on this topic and describes canonizing of Haji Qadir Koyi as the second person of the Kurdish national literary canon. That is why the first Kurdish publications mention those who fall under the influence of Haji Qadir’s ideas and describe him as a canonical person. It then mentions the views of leftist and nationalist intellectuals who each try to interpret Haji’s thoughts according to their own ideology. In the third point the article draws attention to some twentieth century poets who describe Haji as a canonical figure and portray him as the leader of national poetry.