Kermanshahi Kurds
Encyclopedia
Kermanshahi refers to Iranian people
who live mainly in Kermanshah province
.
Kermanshahi Kurdish (sometimes called Kalhori for most parts of the province) has one of the greatest speakers in the southern branch. Kermanshahi Kurdish is spoken in and around the city of Kermanshah
and in Kermanshah province.
The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims. Kermanshah
is populated by both ethnic Persians and Shia Kurdish people and both Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian languages are spoken in the city. But today only the older generation speak Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian and the majority of the citys inhabitants speak Standard Persian which is based on the dialect/accent of Tehran.
Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...
who live mainly in Kermanshah province
Kermanshah Province
Kermanshah Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. The province was known from 1969 to 1986 as Kermanshahan and from 1986 to 1995 as Bakhtaran.-Counties:...
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Kermanshahi Kurdish (sometimes called Kalhori for most parts of the province) has one of the greatest speakers in the southern branch. Kermanshahi Kurdish is spoken in and around the city of Kermanshah
Kermanshah
Kermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...
and in Kermanshah province.
The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims. Kermanshah
Kermanshah
Kermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...
is populated by both ethnic Persians and Shia Kurdish people and both Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian languages are spoken in the city. But today only the older generation speak Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian and the majority of the citys inhabitants speak Standard Persian which is based on the dialect/accent of Tehran.
Scientists
- Al-DinawariAl-DinawariĀbu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī was a Persian polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history. He was born in Dinawar, . He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in...
scientist born at Dinawar north-east of KermanshahKermanshahKermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...
. - Massoud AzarnoushMassoud AzarnoushMassoud Azarnoush was an Iranian archaeologist.He was born in Kermanshah. He received his MA from the department of archaeology at University of Tehran in 1972 and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985...
, archaeologist - Shahram AmiriShahram AmiriShahram Amiri is an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Iran for a little over a year under disputed circumstances. In the spring of 2009, he disappeared while apparently on pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. About a year later two videos appeared, each purporting to be declarations by...
, nuclear scientist
Musicians
- Shahram NazeriShahram NazeriShahram Nazeri is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish ancestry who sings classical Persian music from Kermanshah. He is one of Iran's most respected vocalists...
- master of Persian classical music and Kurdish music. - Susan (singer)Susan (singer)Susan Susan (or Sousan) Susan (or Sousan) (April or May 1942 Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah, Iran - May 3, 2004 Los Angeles, California, U.S.(Persian: سوسن) was a very popular Iranian singer of particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Susan was also known for her philanthropic acts and was commonly...
(Golandam Taherkhani)- singer - Kayhan KalhorKayhan KalhorKayhan Kalhor , born 24 November 1963, is an Iranian kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Persian music.-Youth and studies:...
- musician - Rahim Moeini KermanshahiRahim Moeini KermanshahiRahim Moeini Kermanshahi is an Iranian lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Iranian traditional music.-Biography:Master Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was born in 1922 in Kermanshah, Iran...
- songwriter - Ali Akbar MoradiAli Akbar MoradiAli Akbar Moradi,, born 1957 is a well known Iranian Kurdish musician and composer. He was born in the Iranian city of Kermanshah...
- musician and tanbour player - Roknoddin Mokhtari- violin player
- Sohrab PournazeriSohrab PournazeriSohrab Pournazeri is an Iranian musician, virtuoso and composer born in 1982 in Kermanshah. He plays Kamancheh and tanbour.-Life:...
, musician
Actors and movie directors
- Pouran DerakhshandehPouran DerakhshandehPourān Derakh'shandeh is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher.Pourān Derakh'shandeh graduated in film directing in 1975 from Advanced School of Television and Cinema in Tehran...
, film director, producer, screen writer - Alexis KourosAlexis KourosAlexis Kouros is a Iranian-Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director and producer.His first book, Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior award in 1997...
, writer, documentary-maker, director and producer - Nozar AzadiNozar AzadiNozar Azadi , also known as Ghatebeh , is a famous Iranian comedian and actor. He was born in Kermanshah, Iran, in 1938 .-Career:...
, actor - Reza Fieze Norouzi, actor
- Reza Shafiei JamReza Shafiei JamReza Shafiei Jam is an Iranian actor . He is famous for his roles in satire TV series and films. He is half Kermanshahi.-Films :* Mard-e avazi * Ertefa-e past * Soorati ...
, actor
Political figures
- Bijan Namdar ZangenehBijan Namdar ZangenehBijan Namdar Zangeneh is an Iranian politician.Zangeneh was born in the western city of Kermanshah in 1953. He spent his early school years in his hometown before moving to Tehran where he received his high school diploma...
, Oil minister. - Karim SanjabiKarim SanjabiKarim Sanjabi was an Iranian liberal political leader of the 20th century. He was born in Kermanshah, Iran.-Early life:...
, Iran's attorney in the oil's national movement, former foreign minister - Mohammad MokriMohammad MokriMohammad Mokri was an Iranian Kurdish scholar and author born in Kermanshah. He wrote over 100 books and 700 articles during his lifetime. Most of his work dealt with the subject of the Kurdish people and the Ahl-e Haqq religious order...
, politician, kurdologist, writer, poet, linguist, researcher - Ebrahim AziziEbrahim AziziEbrahim Azizi is an Iranian politician.He was a member and spokesman of the Guardian Council. He also served as a representative of Kermanshah in the Iranian parliament.-References:...
, member and spokesman of the Guardian CouncilGuardian CouncilThe Guardian Council of the Constitution , also known as the Guardian Council or Council of Guardians, is an appointed and constitutionally-mandated 12-member council that wields considerable power and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran....
Sportspeople
- Mohammad Hassan MohebbiMohammad Hassan MohebbiMohammad Hassan Mohebbi is an Iranian light heavyweight freestyle wrestler from Kermanshah. He is the brother of Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi, who is also a renowned wrestler...
, light heavyweight freestyle wrestlerFreestyle wrestlingFreestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...
& Iran's national team coach - Kourosh BagheriKourosh BagheriKourosh Bagheri is an Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the Men's 94 kg weight class at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships.- References :*...
, World Weightlifting Champion - Ali MazaheriAli MazaheriAli Mazaheri is an amateur boxer from Iran, who competed in the 2006 Asian Games in the Heavyweight division and won the gold medal in the final bout against Uzbekistan's Jasur Matchanov 25-19. He is also 2007 Asian champion...
, Asian amateur boxing champion & Olympic boxer - Mohammad RanjbarMohammad RanjbarMohammad Ranjbar was an Iranian footballer and coach. Ranjbar played for Esteghlal and PAS Tehran. He was a member and captain of Iran national football team. He was also head coach of national team in 1972.-Early years:...
, footballer & coach - Homa HosseiniHoma HosseiniHoma Hosseini is an Iranian rower born in Kermanshah.She represented Iran in the single sculls event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Hosseini was one of three female Iranian competitors at the Games, and was the first ever female Iranian Olympic rower. She also was her country's flagbearer...
, rower - Kianoush RostamiKianoush RostamiKianoush Rostami is an Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the Men's 85 kg weight class at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships.- References :*...
, World Champion in Weightlifting 85kg - Mohammad Ghorbani Goldasteh, Greco-roman wrestler
Writers and poets
- Doris LessingDoris LessingDoris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....
, writer, 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
(born in Kermanshah to British parents) - Rashid YasemiRashid YasemiGholamreza Rashid Yasemi was an Iranian poet, translator and literary figure of Kurdish origin.He finished his primary education in Kermanshah and then moved to Tehran in 1912 where he resided for the rest of his life...
, one of the Five-MastersFive-MastersFive-Masters refers to five very influential masters of Persian literature, Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid Yasemi....
of Persian LiteraturePersian literaturePersian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language... - Mir Jalaleddin KazzaziMir Jalaleddin KazzaziMir Jalaleddin Kazzazi is an outstanding master of Persian literature and a renowned Iranist.Kazzazi is known for his works on Shahnama. M.J...
, writer - Abolghasem LahoutiAbolghasem LahoutiAbolqāsem Lahūtī , also transliterated as Abulqasim Lahuti and Abulqosim Lohuti, was a Persian poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.Born in Kermanshah to a poet by the name Mirza Ahmad Elhami, his...
, poet - Ali Mohammad AfghaniAli Mohammad Afghani-Biography:Veteran contemporary writer, Ali Mohammad Afghani was born in 1925 in Kermanshah. He was raised in a poor family. Although a top student, he dropped out of school to work along with his father. He tried to get employed in the National Iranian Oil Company, but failed for certain reasons....
, novelist - Ali Ashraf DarvishianAli Ashraf DarvishianAli-Ashraf Darvishian is an Iranian story writer and scholar. After fininishing teacher training college he taught at the poverty stricken villages of Gilan-e-Gharb and Shah Abad Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (born 1941 in Kermanshah) is an Iranian story writer and scholar. After fininishing teacher...
, novelist and writer - Nasser ZarafshanNasser ZarafshanNasser Zarafshan is an Iranian novelist, translator, and attorney. He is most famous internationally for having been arrested while acting as the legal envoy of two of the families of dissident Iranian writers who were assassinated in November 1998 in what came to be known in Iran as the "Chain...
, novelist, translator, and attorney - Javad Sharifi, poet
- Hajj NematollahHajj NematollahHajj Nematollah was born in Jeyhounabad, Persia and is considered one of the greatest leaders and mystics in Kurdish and Ahl-e Haqq history. Two of his most famous works of poetry and history are Furqān al-Akhbar and Ḥaqq al-Ḥaqāyiq yā Shāhnāmah-ʾi Ḥaqīqat...
, mystic - Mahshid AmirshahiMahshid AmirshahiMahshid Amirshahi is a contemporary Iranian writer born in Kermanshah. She is an active proponent of establishing a secular democracy in Iran, and as an opponent of the current Islamic republic, for which she moved into exile in France after the 1979 Iranian revolution.During the revolution,...
, writer
Artists
- Mirza Mohammad Reza KalhorMirza Mohammad Reza KalhorMirza Reza Kalhor from Kermanshah Kalhor tribe, family Shyh veins, dark Khman [1] One of the Qajar Iranian Calligraphy is at the time. [2]...
, famous calligrapher - Guity NovinGuity NovinGuity Novin is an Iranian-Canadian figurative painter, and graphic designer residing in Canada. She classifies her work as Transpressionism, a movement she has introduced.Her works are in private and public collections worldwide....
, painter & graphic designer - Rafat Mey-Elahy, painter
Others
- Andre MolitorAndré MolitorAndré Molitor , is a former Belgian senior civil servant of the Belgian State and former principal private secretary of King Baudouin I of Belgium from 1961 until 1977...
, former clerk of the great Belgian State and former chief of staff of the king Baudouin I of Belgium, professor of public administration at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) - Hayedeh Shirzadi, director general of Kermanshah recycling & organic fertilizer production company
- Frangis Heydarpour, civilian war heroine