Kurdish Imitations of Nizami’s Quintet

Kurdish poets composed imitative poems of Nizami’s mathnavis (quintuple). They considered Khosrow & Shirin more than the other Nizam’s works; so that between 11 imitations who introduced in this article, 6 items are considered imitation of Nizami’s Shirin & Khosrow. These Kurds poets, more than impression by Nizami’s works, have been impressed by oral and written resources. In this article was deal with these imitative poetries and in some cases deal with items of differences. The kurds poets paid attention to Shirin & Khosrow more than the other Nizami’s mathnavis; as Leyli & Majnun, Eskandarname (story of Alexander) and the other imitative nizami’s poetry are scarce; whereas poetries of Khosrow & Shirin (Shirn & Farhad) either published or the manuscripts remained in Iran or other countries libraries. At the other side, most of these imitative Kurdish poets which introduced in this article – except Mem & Zin which it’s  poet didn’t adapted story of Nizami’s works and Saghināme of Ahmad Khani – composed in syllabic meters (non-prosodic meters).