Akhtar means asterism. It is the nickname of Amin Agha, son of Bakr Agha, son of Mohammad Agha Hawezi. He was born in 1839 in Bafri Qandi neighborhood of Koya.
Akhtar began his education in one of the rooms of the Great Mosque of Koya. He studied Persian with Mullah Smail Mantak as an adolescent and continued his studies with his brother Asad Agha Hawezi in Baghdad.
At the age of fifteen, he was forced to drop out of school and succeeded his father. He thus became the head of the Hawezian family and his private diwan appeared as a literary center at that time. It was the center of meetings of poets of that time, especially Haji, Keyfi and Sheikh Reza were honored guests in that diwan.
As a rich and prominent nobleman, Akhtar was not aristocratic in social life. He had mercy on the poor, gave them a hand and helped them. Akhtar had his own word, resisted the evil of the Ottoman invaders, to the point of making fun of the Ottoman Sultan. On the Ottoman Empire, Taqi al-Din Pasha exiled Akhtar to the southern Iraqi city of Hilla. After a while, when Namiq Pasha became governor, he released Akhtar from exile and returned to Koya.
In his private life, Akhtar fell in love with a beautiful girl from the Darogha family named Rabi. This pure love is buried alive on the grounds that Akhtar and Rabi were milked together as children.
Akhtar was not only a poet, but also an original artist of music and song. He composed music for some Kurdish poems. In addition to his own poems, which were sung by singers, he also composed poems for a specific music. He also sometimes composed poetry for a specific melody, paying attention to songs and folk anthems.
He was a center of literature and art. In general, Akhtar played an important role in the literate life of the slave community in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Akhtar died in 1888 in Koya and was buried next to his father in the Arabian cemetery.[1]