Mastoureh Ardalan
A statue of Ardalan inSanandaj,Iran
Born	Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan 1805 Sanandaj,Qajar Iran
Died	1848 (aged 42–43) Sulaymaniyah,Ottoman Iraq
Occupation	Writer, poet, philosopher, historian
Spouse	Khosro Ardalan
Children	1
Parents	Abulhassan Beig (father)

Mah Sharaf Khanom Mastoureh Ardalan orMastura Ardalan (1805−1848) was anIranianKurd poet, historian, and writer. She wrote mainly in Persian andGorani.

Ardalan was born inSanandaj inQajar Iran and died inSulaymaniyah in theOttoman Empire. She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the court of thePrincipality of Ardalan. She studiedKurdish,Arabic andPersian under the supervision of her father,Abolhasan Beig Qadiri. Her husband,Khasraw Khani Ardalan was the ruler of the principality. Her husband's death left the principality vulnerable to outside interference. When theQajar state conquered theArdalan territory in the 19th century, she and her family left for theBaban principality centered inSulaymaniyah. Her son, Reza Qulikhan, the successor toKhasraw Khan, was imprisoned by theQajars.^{[citation needed]}

She wrote several books of poetry, history and literature. She mainly wrote inHawrami orGorani, a Kurdish dialect, and inPersian, but she has a few poems inCentral Kurdish as well.^[1] Most her Kurdish poetry was forgotten during the 20th century and was rediscovered and published by the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century.^[2] She was a poet and renownedhistoriographer of theMiddle East. She wrote a book about the history of the Kurdish Ardalan dynasty. She also wrote a collection of poems, which has been republished in recent years.

Her 200th birthday was celebrated recently in a festival inErbil, in theIraqi Kurdistan region, where her statue was unveiled in a ceremony. A conference was held on the works of Mastoureh in Erbil from 11 to 15 December 2005. Over one hundred scientific and cultural figures from across the world attended the congress in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which thirty articles inKurdish,Persian, English, andArabic were presented about the life and works of Mastoureh Ardalan. In addition, several of her works were published by the organizers in Persian and Kurdish during the congress.^{[citation needed]}

A statue of Ardalan by Iranian sculptor Hadi Zia-dini now stands inSanandaj, Iran.^[3]

• Khronika Doma Ardalan: Ta'rikh-I Ardalan by Mah Sharaf Khanum Kurdistani and E. I. Vasileva,ISBN 5-02-016559-X / 502016559X
• Divan-i Masturah Kurdistani, Collection of poems, 238 pp., 1998,ISBN 964-6528-02-3.

• List of Kurdish philosophers

• List of Kurdish scholars

• Some of the Kurdish Poems of Mastura Ardalan
• Mastura Mâh-Sharaf Khâtun inKurdish Literature
• Mastura Kurdistani, by Shahla Dabbaghi, in Kurdish
• About the Mastura Commemoration Congress in Irbil
• Woman poet statue set up in Irbil,Hewler Globe

• 1805 births
• 1848 deaths
• Kurdish poets
• Kurdish writers
• Iranian Kurdish women
• People from Sanandaj
• Kurdish women poets
• Kurdish women writers
• Iranian women writers
• Kurdish scholars
• 19th-century poets
• Kurdish philosophers
• 19th-century women poets
• 19th-century Persian-language writers
• 19th-century Kurdish people
• 19th-century Iranian women writers

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