Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi

People Living

پێشەوا قادر الكردي

c. 1980 CE · c. 1400 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Sulaymaniyah

Kurdish Iraqi Quran reciter from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, listed among the full-mushaf reciters in the Hafs 'an 'Asim narration; reciter profiles describe him as an imam in Sulaymaniyah. His YouTube channel, started on 1 December 2012, counted 1,670,000 subscribers, 372,622,074 views and 1,943 videos as read by vidIQ on 9 November 2026; his Facebook page counted 5,300,000 followers by post metadata of 13 January 2026, and his Instagram account 1,000,000 followers by his own post of 4 November 2026. The recited text is Arabic, as for every reciter; his supplication content and his pages' framing run in Sorani Kurdish and Arabic.

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At a glance

Roles
reciter
Region
Levant & Iraq

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Aaijaz Ahmad Salafi · Abba Mahamat Moussa · Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Almohri · Abbas Kiarostami

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Sulaymaniyah

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1980

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    Platform figures read on the date shown; they are what the platform displayed that day, not museum facts.

    • youtubesubscribers: 1,670,000 · read on 2026-11-09 · @peshawakurdi (channel ID UCLEAwlZ-TpT4McPiQ5Z1pLA), started 1 December 2012, channel country Iraq: 1,670,000 subscribers, 372,622,074 views and 1,943 videos as read by vidIQ on 9 November 2026; the coordinator's re-read of the same page (data as of 8 November 2026) showed the same subscriber count. Uploads were current to 1 November 2026 (speakrj snapshot). The figure is a dated platform count, not a museum-verified fact
    • facebookfollowers: 5,300,000 · read on 2026-01-13 · His Facebook page: 5,300,000 followers by the post metadata of his post dated 13 January 2026, as read by the wave-199 harvest on 9 November 2026; the figure is a dated platform count resting on the harvest's metadata read, not a direct read in this build run
    • instagramfollowers: 1,000,000 · read on 2026-11-04 · @peshawakurdi (account name 'Peshawa Qadir Nabi'): 1,000,000 followers by his own post dated 4 November 2026, as read by the wave-199 harvest. A separate account, @peshawakurdi_, states in its own bio that it is not official and is never used

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    Lived in
    Sulaymaniyah

    People and things also explored

    Babanzade Rebellions (1806–1812)· Battle of Sulaymaniyah (1678)· Abdullatif Ahmad Mustafa· Abdulwahid Muhammed Salih· Barham Salih· Mastoureh Ardalan· Muhammad Mala Fayaq Sharazoori· Sulaymaniyah

    Sources

    • Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi — official YouTube channel (@peshawakurdi)
    • Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi — vidIQ YouTube channel statistics (@peshawakurdi)
    • Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi — his Facebook page
    • Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi — Instagram account (@peshawakurdi)
    • Peshawa Qadr Al-Kurdi — AlQuranAudio reciter profile
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Peshawa Qadir Al-Kurdi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/peshawa-qadir-al-kurdi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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