List of Kurdish People - Scholars & Academics

Scholars & Academics

  • Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī (828–896), polymath, botanist, historian, geographer, metallurgist, astronomer and mathematician, Abbasid Caliphate.
  • al-Jazari (1136-1206), mathematician, Artuqid/Ayyubid.
  • Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145-1234), historian, Ayyubid Empire.
  • Ibn Khallikan (1211-1282), religious scholar and judge, Ayyubid Empire.
  • Idris Bitlisi (?-1520), religious scholar, Ottoman Empire.
  • Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543-1603), Historian, author of Sharafnama, Ottoman Empire/Safavid Iran.
  • Mulla Effendi (1863-1942), religious scholar, Ottoman Empire/Iraq.
  • Nadir Nadirov (born 1932), Vice president of Engineering Academy and Member of Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan.
  • Yona Sabar (born 1938), Kurdish-Jewish scholar and linguist, USA.
  • Amir Hassanpour (born 1943), Kurdish scholar and researcher, Canada.
  • Abbas Vali (born 1950), political scientist, UK/Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Dlawer Ala'Aldeen (born 1960), Kurdish academic, physician, lobbyist, political writer, UK.
  • Edip Yuksel (born 1957), Kurdish/American writer and activist, UK/Turkey/USA.
  • Hashim Ahmadzadeh (born 1961), Kurdish writer, translator and academician, UK.
  • Saad Eskander (born 1962), academic and researcher, director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, Iraq/UK.
  • Mehrdad Izady (born 1963), academic and historian, USA.
  • Hamid Hassani (born 1968), scholar and researcher.
  • Bakhtiar Sajjadi (born 1976), academic, writer and translator, Iran.
  • Hussein Khaliqi, writer and head of the Kurdish Institute of Stockholm.
  • Azad Bonni, professor of pathology at Harvard, USA.
  • Yektan Turkyilmaz, professor at Duke University, USA.

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