Biography

Muhammad Amin Maruf Kamila was born in the city of Koysinjaq, affiliated with Erbil Governorate, in the Year 1920. Initially, he studied under (Mullah Rash) in religious studies. He joined the first stage of schooling in the Year 1929 at the Koysinjaq Primary School, completing the stage in the Year 1936. He was accepted in the Year 1936 into the Rural Teachers' Institute in the city of Baghdad, where the duration of study was four years. He was appointed as a teacher at the Koysinjaq Primary School. He was a teacher for Jalal Talabani (1933-2017) in the first grade of primary school in the Year 1941. In the Year 1943, he provided financial assistance to the Kurdish Al-Nasr Club in Baghdad. He published an article in the Year 1943 in Gelawej magazine, issued in the Kurdish language in Baghdad. He was a supporter of literacy in the city of Koysinjaq in the Year 1949. He passed away on November 15, 1999, in the city of Koysinjaq after suffering from diabetes and was buried in the Ke Kon cemetery. On Wednesday, November 17, 1999, Engineer Ali Abdullah Amin, Deputy Head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, sent a message of condolence to his family. He was fluent in both the Kurdish and Arabic languages.   

 

Struggle Pages

He joined the Kurdish Hiwa Party in the Year 1940, and in the Year 1945, he became associated with the Communist Party in Iraqi Kurdistan (Revolution Party). He was one of the Delegates of the First Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (First Unification) in the city of Baghdad in the Year 1946. He worked in the Year 1947 as a teacher at the Zanist Primary School in the city of Koysinjaq in Erbil Governorate. In the name of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he led a demonstration on January 27, 1948, against the Portsmouth Treaty between the British Kingdom and the Iraqi Kingdom in the city of Koysinjaq, affiliated with Erbil Governorate, against the Iraqi Kingdom regime. He became a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Koysinjaq Conference) in the Year 1950. He was elected in the Year 1951 as a Member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the Second Congress of the Party. He was responsible for the Koysinjaq Local Committee in the Year 1951. In the Year 1951, he was one of the supporters of the wing of lawyer Hamza Abdullah Omar (1915-1998) within the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the Year 1953, he was elected as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq by the Delegates of the Third Congress of the Party. He was deported in the Year 1953 by the authorities of the Iraqi Kingdom to (Pardi) in Kirkuk Governorate. In the Year 1953, he stood against the candidacy of members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq for the Iraqi Parliament. In the Year 1957, he became a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified (Third Union). He assumed responsibility for the Koysinjaq Local Committee affiliated with the Second Branch of the Party in the Year 1958. In the Year 1964, he moved away permanently from party work.    

Sources:

  1. Prepared by: Kamal Maruf, Memoirs of Teacher Abdulmajid Nureddin Jalizada, (Erbil - Shahab Printing House - 2012 AD), pp. 24, 108.

  2. Mazba, The Polish Boy, translated by Muhammad Amin Maruf, Gelawej Magazine, Issue 11, Year 4, Baghdad, Al-Ma'arif Printing House, November 1943 AD, pp. 66-71.

  3. Ahmed Bawer, The Success Club Group, (Kurdistan - Kalar Municipality - Tishk Offset Printing House - 2004 AD), p. 135.

  4. Mam Jalal, The Year of the Student Congress, Part Five, Khak Magazine, Issue 14, Second Year, Sulaymaniyah, Diler Offset Printing House, August 10, 1998 AD, p. 7.

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  18. Koya... In the Days of the 1948 Wathba, Kurdistani Nwe Newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Issue 301, Second Year, Erbil, Wednesday, January 27, 1993 AD, p. 6.

  19. Majid Asangar, "On the Fortieth Day of a High-Ranking Teacher", Brayati Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 2998, Erbil, Sunday, December 26, 1999 AD, p. 3. 

  20. Deputy Head of our Party consoles the family of the late Teacher Muhammad Amin Maruf, Khabat Newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 951, Erbil, Friday, November 19, 1999 AD, p. 2.