The famous Kurdish national poet Abdulkhaliq Hussein Naqshbandi was born in 1890 in Kirkuk and lived in the arms of a religious family. He visited many cities in southern and eastern Kurdistan during his mullah studies. At the end of his trip, he received his scientific certificate from Mullah Ali Hikmat Siamensouri in Kirkuk.
In 1920, he went to Istanbul and met his younger brother Najmaddin Efendi and Sheikh Abdulqadir Shamzini, who were engaged in the Kurdish struggle, and learned the lessons of national struggle from them. In 1921, he returned to Kirkuk and began his Kurdish struggle and wrote national poetry until he became a famous Kurdish poet. Together with poets such as Ahmad Mukhtar Jaf, Fayeq Bekas and the great mullah of Koya, they replaced Haji Qadir Koya in writing national poetry.
He studied in Haji Ahmad Agha Mosque with Haji Mullah Mohammed Wasta Fatah. At the age of eighteen, he went to Hawraman, Halabja, Jawanro, Bana, Saqiz, Sina, and Chor.
Later, he studied rhetoric and mathematics with Mullah Ali Hikmat Effendi in Kirkuk. He had received his scientific license and went to Istanbul. In Istanbul, Izmir, and Beirut, when he sees the orderly work of the West, he remembers how lofty they were, his people and his country and changes his mind completely.
When he returned from Istanbul, he collected all his poems and burned them, because like other poets, he had written poems of love, praise, competition, and insultation. After burning his poems, he fell on the trade of the people and the country, and his heart caught fire and he began to sing national poems.
In his autobiography, Asiri tells his friend Giwi Mukuriani that he was born in 1895, not 1890, when he went to Kurdistan in the summer of 1913.
He died on 18-06-1962 at the age of 72 and was buried in the cemetery of Sheikh Mihaddin in Kirkuk. [1]