Jalile Jalil


Jalile Jalil, is a Kurdish historian, writer and Kurdologist. He was born in Yerevan to a Yazidi family and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad. He wrote his thesis regarding the Kurdish rebellions in the 19th century. He received his PhD in 1963, and worked in the Academy of Sciences from 1963 to 1993. He along with his brother Ordîxanê Celîl, collected Yazidi religious poetry and Kurdish legends and tales. After the collapse of Soviet Union, he moved to Austria, and taught at the University of Vienna, where he taught Kurdish. He is now working at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Books

  1. Vosstaniye Kurdov 1880 goda, 132 pp., Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1966.
  2. Zargotina Kurda, co-authored with Ordîxanê Celîl, Vol. I, II, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1978.
  3. Jiyana Rewşenbirî û Siyasi ya Kurdan, 200 pp., Jîna Nû Publishers, 1985.
  4. Celîl, O., C. Celîl & Z. Celîl, Kurdskie skazki, legendy i predaniia, Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1989.
  5. Zargotina Kurdên Sûriyê, co-authored with Ahmet Omer and Ordîxanê Celîl, Jîna Nû Publishers, Uppsala, Sweden, 1989,.
  6. Dastanên Kurdî, coauthored with Ordîxanê Celîl, 244 pp., Zêl Publishers, Istanbul, 1994.
  7. Autobîografîya Ebdurrizaq Bedirxan, 72 pp., Havîbûn Publishers, 1999.
  8. Dîwaro tera dibêm bûkê tu guhdar be, 158 pp., Pêrî Publishers, Istanbul, 2000.
  9. Sîyapûş Seyfulmuluk, 328 pp., Avesta Publishers, 2000.
  10. Rûpelên Balkeş Ji Dîroka Gelê Kurd, 195 pp., 2002.
  11. Keşkûla Kurmancî : sedsalîyên X - XX, 311 pp., Vienna, 2004,.

    Articles

  12. Belgek ji pêwendiyên Ermenya Kurda yê dîrokî çandî, Journal of the Oriental Institute of Armenian Academy, p. 105, Vol. XIII, 1985.