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{{Short description|Kurdish poet}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name        = '''Mehwî'''
| native_name = مەحوی
| image       = Statue of Kurdish poet Mahwi in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq.JPG
| imagesize   = 200px
| caption     = Statue of Mahwi in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq
| pseudonym   = 
| birth_name  = Mullah Mohammed Osman Balkhi
| period      = Classical
| birth_date  = {{birth year|1836}}
| birth_place = Chwarbax, [[Slemani]]
| death_date  = {{death year and age|1906|1836}}
| death_place = [[Istanbul ]]
| occupation  = [[Poet]], [[linguist]], and [[Islamic scholar]]
| nationality = [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]]
}}

'''Mahwi''' ({{langx|ku|مەحوی}} ''Mehwî''; full name: مەلا موحەمەد کوڕی عوسمان بەڵخی ''Mala Mohammed Osman Ballkhi'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and [[sufis]] from [[Kurdistan]] of Iraq. He studied in [[Sablakh]] and [[Sanandaj]] in [[Iranian Kurdistan]]. He became a judge in the court of [[Slemani]], in today's Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to [[Istanbul]] and met [[Abdul-Hamid II]] in 1883. He established a [[khaneqah]], an Islamic religious school and mosque, in Slemani and named it after an Ottoman emperor. In his poems, he mainly promotes [[sufism]], but also deals with the human condition and existential problems, such as questions about the meaning of life.

==Works==
A collection of his poems has been published several times.

#''Dîwanî Mehwî'', Slemani, 1922.
#''Dîwanî Mehwî'', Edited by Jamal Muhammad Muhammad Amin, Serkewtin Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 1984. 
#''Dîwanî Mehwî'', Edited and Analyised by Mala Abdolkarimi Modarres and Mohammed Mala Karim, Hissam Publishers, Baghdad, 1977 and 1984.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929001948/http://www.3ashan.net/hedi/archives/mehwi2.pdf A collection of essays on Mahwi's poems (in Kurdish)]  
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=3pbwgOLcwTYC&pg=PA338 Classical Traditions and Modern Meanings], by Stephen Sperl. Last visit 19 November 2013.

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[[Category:Kurdish-language Iraqi poets]]
[[Category:1830 births]]
[[Category:1906 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century poets from Ottoman Iraq]]


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