Muhtasar Hayatım

"Concise History of Kurdistan", one of Ekrem Cemilpaşa 's pioneering historical works on ancient Kurdish history, published in Beirut in 1972, was published by Avesta Publications.

While Ekrem Cemilpaşa and Kadri Cemilpaşa were in Syria, they agreed to write Kurdish history from beginning to end and shared a message among themselves. The task of writing ancient Kurdish history

Ekrem Cemilpaşa took over the task, and the responsibility of writing the new era Kurdish history was left to Kadri Cemilpaşa. Both of them fulfilled their duties towards the end of their lives and wrote and published their books. The book you have in your hand, which tells about the ancient Kurdish history, is called Dîroka Kurdistan bi Kurtebirî - I (Kurdebir dirok a Kurdistan-I).

Ekrem Cemilpaşa, who published the book in Kurdish in Beirut in 1972, translated the book into Turkish himself and published it in the same year under the name Muhtasar Kurdistan History. This book has been re-published based on the original copy of the work typed by Ekrem Cemilpaşa's daughter, Pervin Cemil.

While writing the book Muhtasar Kurdistan History, Mihemed Emin Zeki Beg

He took his work titled Kurds and History of Kurdistan as a reference book.

Expressing that although Ekrem Cemilpaşa wrote this work in two volumes,

If he thought of writing a book - even to emphasize his determination on this subject - he noted on the cover of the book that it was the first volume and wanted to devote the second volume to the recent Kurdish history after 1918.

He did not live his life for this.

This work, which is the first history book written and published in Kurdish (Kurmanji dialect) by the Kurds of Turkey, is a book that, although little known,

It had a great impact on subsequent generations. According to the conditions of the period

This study, which has a rich literature review, although it has intense content about ancient Kurdish history, also examines the developments regarding the twentieth century Kurdish political movement.

has received. He contributed to the written Kurdish language, literature, culture and history, making him one of the few Kurdish intellectuals of his time who wrote in Kurdish.

This work of Ekrem Cemilpaşa, one of the few people in Kurdish history,

It is one of the main reference sources of researchers.