About Yosif Yaska
Yosif Yaska was a poet.
Yusuf Yaska (, 1592-1636) was a Kurdish poet, considered, along with Mistefa Bêsaranî, to be one of the early members of Gorani poetry after Mele Perîşan. The content of his ghazals were about love and nature. Little is known about his personal life, yet Minorsky wrote that Yaska was executed by immurement after his master Khan Ahmad Khan Ardalan of Ardalan suspected him of dallying with his wife, daughter of Shah Abbas.
Poetry Yaska is the founder of a literary school that focuses more on local poetic traditions, using a decasyllabic meter and a caesura between two rhyming hemistiches. This composition was common in folk poetry in Ardalan.
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