[2] Joyce Blau called him the spiritual son of Cizîrî, Teyran and Ali Hariri.

[3] Xanî was born in the village of Khan near Hakkari in 1650 and began writing poetry at the age of fourteen.

[5] In a mathnawi from 1694, he chose not to devote parts of the introduction to praise the rulers of his time, which was typical in classical Oriental literature.

[1] He also believed that an independent Kurdistan could safeguard the Kurdish language for scientific and intellectual purposes.

[5] In the epic Mem and Zin, he wrote:[5][6] If we had unity amongst ourselves,If we all, together, obeyed one another,The Turks, the Arabs and the Persians,Would one and all be in our servitude.We would complete our religion and stateWe would receive knowledge and wisdom