Osman Efendîyo Babij orOsman Esad (born 1852 inSiverek – died in 1929 in Siverek) was aKurdish religious figure andMufti of Siverek whose 1903 bookMawlûd is known to be the second published book inZaza.^[1]

Babij was born in the village of Bab (Kapıkaya) in Siverek,Ottoman Empire. His father Hacı Eyüp Efendi was Mufti of Siverek and Babij spokeArabic,Kurmanji Kurdish andOttoman Turkish beside Zaza. Babij followed his father and was the Mufti of Siverek for 24 years from 1904 to 1929. He died 82 years old in Siverek and is buried in the town.^[2]

His main workMawlûd was written in 1903 but only published in 1933 byCeladet Alî Bedirxan. The original text was in Zaza inArabic script butMehemed Malmîsanij transcribed the text intoLatin script in 1985.Mawlûd is sectioned into eight parts and has 196couplets.^[3]

• Lezgîn, Roşan (2009),Among social Kurdish groups – General glance at Zazas, translated by Aydın, Nusret
• Özer, Osman (2016)."Mevlid – Ahmed-i Hasi"(PDF).Bingöl University Publications.

• 1852 births
• 1929 deaths
• Zaza language
• 19th-century Kurdish people
• Kurdish people from the Ottoman Empire
• People from Siverek
• 20th-century Kurdish writers

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