Muhamed Amin Zaki, was a Kurdish

Kurdish people

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 writer, historian, statesman and politician. He was born in Sulaimaniya, attended the Military and Staff College at Istanbul

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 and served as a staff officer in the Ottoman

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 army. He also served in the Iraq

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i administration under the British

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 mandate in the 1920s and was appointed as Defence Minister in 1928. His two-volume book on history of the Kurdish people and states is one of the acclaimed works on this subject and has been translated into several languages including Arabic

Arabic language

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 and English

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Books

1. A Short History of the Kurds and Kurdistan, in two volumes, Dar al-Islami Publishers, Baghdad, 1931.(in Kurdish)

Vol.I: From the Antiquity to the Present.

Vol.II: History of the Kurdish States and Principalities.