| Muhammed Emin Zeki Beg | |
| Birth Date: | 1880 |
| Birth Place: | Sulaymaniyah, Ottoman Empire |
| Death Date: | 1948 |
| Death Place: | Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Occupation: | Historian, Politician, writer |
| Nationality: | Ottoman Empire |
| Subject: | Politics, Social issues, History |
| Movement: | Kurdish Nationalism |
| Notableworks: | Kurds and Kurdistan |
Muhammed Amin Zaki Bey, (1880 Sulaymaniyah –1948 Sulaymaniyah), was a Kurdish writer, historian and politician. He was born in Sulaimaniya, son of Hagi Abdul Rahman. After studying in Sulaimaniya Military School and Baghdad Military High School, on 10 February 1902, he graduated from the Ottoman Military Academy (P. 1317-23) as the 23rd of the class and joined the Ottoman Army as Infantry Second Lieutenant (Mülâzım-ı Sani). He graduated from the Ottoman Military College (Staff College) at Istanbul[1] as distinguished officer (Mümtaz subayı) on 11 January 1905. And then he served as a staff officer (major) in the Ottoman Army.[2] He left his last duty at the Military history department on 23 July 1923 for Baghdad, and started to give lecture at the Iraqi Military Academy. He also served in the Iraqi administration under the British mandate in the 1920s[3] and was appointed as Defence Minister in 1928.[4] His two-volume book on history of the Kurdish people and states is one of the acclaimed works on this subject and has been translated into several languages including Arabic and English.[5] He was the president of the Chamber of Deputies from December 1944 to June 1946.[6] He died in Sulaimaniyah in July 1948.[7]
His books were in Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish. His works primarily focused on Kurdish history, and include:
Zeki was MP of Sulaymaniyah on a number of occasions. He also served as a minister in different portfolios: