Stages of the Kurdish folk poetry in Kurdish criticism

Abstract

    The current research, entitled as "Stages of the Kurdish folk poetry in Kurdish criticism," aims at collecting and classifying Kurdish studies and writings – books and essays which have tackled and presented Kurdish prosody in order to clarify its general characteristics and the role of Kurdish writers and critics at each stage. The folk meters are divided into three stages and each stage has its own characteristics.     The conclusions of the study reveal that research of Kurdish prosody started early by Kurdish poets and it was developed gradually to appear no longer in journals and papers, but in books and academic and scientific research works. Thus, generally speaking, Kurdish prosody has undergone different stages and at each stage it developed and acquired different characteristics particular to that stage.