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Nali (poet)
Nali, the pen name of Mala Khidr Ahmad Shawaysi, was a Kurdish poet of the early 19th century from the Sharazur region, associated with the Baban court at Sulaymaniyah. With Salim and Kurdi he pioneered poetry in the Sorani dialect of Kurdish, which through their work became a literary language. He spent his later years in Istanbul.
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