Cureyê Edebî Yê Metna Huseynê Kurd Û Cihê Wê Di Edebîyata Gel A Kurmancî Da

Abstract

We had compiled a Kurdish variant of the text called Huseynê Kurdîşah years ago. Later, we saw a Persian text called Huseynê Kurdê Şebisterî. During the search process, we also saw a few videos of this work on YouTube. In the meantime, a few researchers compiled several Kurmanji variants of this text and published them as books. Thus, a body of literature was formed. When we searched the field, we noticed that researchers had published several Persian and English articles about this text, but they did not mention the Kurmanji variants of this work in their studies. In addition, some of them determined the literary genre of this work as an epic, some as a short story, some as a folk tale, and some as a folk story. There was also confusion in this aspect of the work, and we identified this as the problem of our research. After determining the problems and questions of our study, we limited its geographical boundaries to Kurmanji speakers in the Eastern region within the borders of Turkey and started to collect our data. At the end of the research process, it was revealed that the 5 texts of this work were compiled in Muş, Batman, Diyarbakır and Adıyaman. We realized that the Kurmanji texts of these variants have common, similar and different aspects among themselves, and that they also have these aspects with Persian texts. After reading and evaluating the literature, we came to the conclusion that the literary genre of this text is an Islamic heroic folk story. We concluded that the events in the work occurred in the 17th centuries and that this text may have entered the Kurmanji folk literature works after the 17th century.