The famous Kurdish storyteller is Kakina or Jamil Saib, son of Mullah Ahmadi (Saib). Saib is a surname his father chose for himself during the times of the ottoman empire.
He is the son of Mullah Qadir Karadaghi, son of Mullah Hassan (some say that he was originally from Sawsenani village in the Qaradagh area).
He was born on August 16, 1887, in Sulaymaniyah. As a child, he studied the Qur'an and Persian in the room of Mullah Amina who was a capable blind person at that time of Sulaymaniyah and had Hujrah he rarely had less than 30 kids. After that, in Halabja, where his father was a judge, he studied Smailnama, Anshuday Sheikh Marfi Node, Yousef and Zulekha and Gulistan Saadi in the Monastery of Mullah Ahmadi Takyai. After they came to Sulaymaniyah, he studied Persian books in the classroom of Mullah Azizi Zalzlayi. Then he began to practice calligraphy because, at that time, children studied the Qur'an and Persian books in the classroom, after he grew up he started reading these books with meaning. He later studied and began to write basil calligraphy, after which he practiced fine calligraphy.
After Hujra, Jamil Saib went to a primary school in Sulaymaniyah which was the only one with only three classes. After that, his father became the judge of Qaladze. He went with him, but because there was no school there, he stayed for a year and a half until he returned to Sulaymaniyah He resumed his studies in the Hamza Agha mosque who is the grandfather of the Kurdish poet Piramerd who is the uncle of Jamil Saib. He suffered from a serious illness that worked so hard in him that he was a little slow until the last day of his life. But he did not give up and resumed reading Persian and Turkish books until his father died. He was forced to submit to the emir's orders and became the clerk of the tax department in Sulaymaniyah until the Ottomans left the country and the British took over the affairs of Iraq. Then he went to the treasury to calculate and became a clerk there.
In 1919 and 1920, when the newspaper Peshkewtan was published in Sulaymaniyah, he participated in its writings.
In 1924, after the fall of Sheikh Mahmud's rule, when the emir's institution was restored in Sulaymaniyah, the newspaper Zhyanawa was published, of which he was the editor-in-chief. He was an administrator until he retired in 1949. He then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zhin, which belonged to his uncle Piramerd. In the autumn of 1951, he fell seriously ill and was brought to Baghdad In 1951, one day after he passed away on #31-10-1951# and his body was taken back to Sulaimani and buried on the slopes of Mamayara Hill next to Piramird.
Kakina is survived by six sons and two daughters:
1. Hama Ali: He was brutally murdered in Mumbai in 1972 after he reached the rank of ambassador.
2. Fawzi: He was an officer. Later he went to the administration and reached the rank of treasurer.
3- Nawzad graduated from law school and became an employee.
4- Azad: He studied abroad in agriculture and became an employee.
5- Bahzad: He was a pilot in the army.
6- Shahzad: He was a lawyer.
7- Nasrin: She was the eldest daughter.
8- Ronak: She was a school teacher.
These children are the children of three wives, Hama Ali and Fawzi had the same mom.
Nasrin is also from a different mother.
The other children have the same mother who was Hapsa khan from the Irfan family in Sulaymaniyah.
His nickname is Jamil Saib (Kakina), which Haji Tofiq Khali had cut off from him as a result of love, which means our uncle. [1]