He attended religious education for eleven years at al-Azhar in Cairo,[1] then returned to his native village and served as a imam until his death in 1844.
He wrote in his Cham dialect and, apparently, was the first Albanian author to deal with the long poem.
[4] His major work is the Erveheja written in 1820, the source of which is the Persian Tûtî-nâme (The Story of a Parrot) by Ziyauddin Nakhshabî, inspired by the original Sanskrit Śukasaptati.
[2] Kyçyk's other works are the poem Bekriu (1824) in which he condemns the drinking of rakia and wine, the historical one around 1826 for Ibrahim Pasha, the glorious campaigns of the Albanian governor of Egypt Mehmet Ali against the Greek rebellion and the poem that deals with the troubles of those who were forced to seek a morsel of bread and profit away from their homeland - the Gurbetlites.
[2] In 1888 Jani Vreto published Ervehena adopted as a fairy tale and sanitized by the oriental lexicon.