Abdul Rahman Sharafkandi known as Hazhar Mukriyani (Kurdish: Hejhar Mukríyaní, ههژار موكریانی) was born in 1921 in small village of Sharaf Kandi (Sheref Kendí) in vicinity of the city of Mehabad in Mukríyan province in Kurdistan. He was a renowned revolutionary Kurdish writer, poet, lexicographer, linguist, and translator.
His father, Mela Muhammad Sherefkendí, a man of learning, was the founder of the first Kurdish school of Islamic studies in Sherefkend, where all instruction was in Kurdish. Hejhar began his education in an Islamic school in Mehabad and continued it at Shéx Borhan’s Xaneqa in Sherefkend, near Bokan, where he met the author Shéx-al-Islam Muhammad-Amin Mukrí, better known as Hémin, and ʿAbd-al-Rehman Zebíhí, the leader of Komelley Jíyanewey Kurd (the Kurdish Resurrection Party).
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