Revolution of Love: Tragedy of Mem û Zin

Description:

This book in Standard Kurdish is a dramatization by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli of the most famous ever Kurdish literary text the Mem u Zin of Ahmadi Khani. The drama is about 50,000 words and it is arguably the most creative and important Kurdish national literary text after the original work of Khani. In a highly aesthetic poetic language it revives and modernizes the story of Mem u Zin establishing it as a monumental national Kurdish heritage fulfilling Khani's dream to turn his protagonists Mem u Zin into eternal embodiments of sacred love, national freedom and social justice. The themes include beauty and love, national customs, Sufist love, Newroz, struggle between good and evil, absurdity of political power, social revolution and spiritual transcendence.

subjects: Kurdish literature,  drama,  tragedy,  Kurdish language

People: Khani,  Mem and Zin

Places: Kurdistan,  seventeenth century,  modern Kurdistan

Times: Kurdistan,  Middle East