[1][2][3] Born in Cizre of Bohtan[4] around year 1570, Cizîrî was a Sufi[5] who spoke Kurdish, Arabic and Persian.
[1] Cizîrî was a friend of Sharafkhan Bidlisi of Principality of Bitlis and celebrated him in two poems.
"[1] He was the first Kurd to use the qasida genre and the first to write a complete diwan of roughly 120 poems.
[7] Cizîrî would also become the father of a Kurdish literary school and was admired by later poets like Ahmad Khani and Cigerxwîn.
[4][8] As he was one of the earliest users of Kurmanji in literary work, he also served as model for other poets including Ahmad Khani who wrote Mem and Zin in the same dialect.