ḴEṢĀLI ČELEBI (Hisâlî Çelebi; d. Budapest, 1062/1651-52), Ḥosayn, Ottoman poet and writer born in Budapest at an unknown date.  His…

ḴAṬIB ROSTAM DEDE B. ʿABD-ALLĀH MAWLAWI (Hatîb Rüstem Dede b. Abdullah el-Mevlevî; d. after 903/ 1498), Ottoman Sufi, writer, and…

KĀMI MEHMED-I KARAMĀNI (Kāmi Mo-ḥammad Qaramāni; b. Karamān; d. Istanbul, 1545), Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and translator. He was born…

KĀMI AḤMED ÇELEBI (Kāmi Aḥmad Čelebi; b. Edirne; d. Istanbul, 1579), Ottoman scholar, judge, writer, and translator. He was born…

JEVRI, EBRĀHIM ČELEBI (CEVRİ İBRAHİM ÇELEBİ, d. 1654), Ottoman poet and calligrapher. Some of his poems seem to suggest that…

JEVDET, ʿABD-ALLĀH (ABDULLAH CEVDET, b. Arapkir, 9 September 1869; d. Istanbul, 29 November 1932), Ottoman poet, writer, translator, and thinker….

JEVDET PASHA (b. Lofça [Lovech, central Bulgaria], 1237/1823; d. Istanbul, 2 Ḏu’l-Ḥejja 1312/26 May 1895), Ottoman writer, historian, jurist, and…

JEVRI (Cevri), AHISKALI (b. Ahıska, 1805; d. Diyarbakır, 1875), Ottoman poet and translator. His first name was Ahmed (Aḥmad). He…

JEM SOLṬĀN (or ŠĀHZĀDA JEM) b. Edirne, 27 Ṣafar 864/23 December 1459; d. Naples, 29 Jomādā I 900/25 February 1495),…

JEMĀLI, Ottoman poet and writer of the 15th century. In two manuscripts of the supplement (ḏeyl), which he wrote for…

JĀMI RUMI (or Jāmi Meṣri), AḤMAD, Ottoman official, poet, and translator (fl. 10th/16th century). Next to nothing is known about…

ERZİ, ADNAN SADIK (b. Hasan Halik, 2 February 1923; d. Istanbul, 5 June 1990), Turkish historian who carried out major…

PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS i. IN OTTOMAN AND MODERN TURKISH LIBRARIES Historical background. Turkish libraries today possess the richest and most valuable…

MUSĀ YABḠU (Bayḡu in some sources), the son of Saljuq Sü-bašï [Sobāši], the eponymous strongman of a Ḡozz clan, whose nephew…

KĀŠEFI (d. 9th/15th century), an Ottoman poet of Iranian origin who composed the epic poem Ḡazā-nāma-ye Rum on the lives…

YAZICI, Tahsin (b. Hoğas, 1338/1922; d. Istanbul, 20 November 2002), Turkish scholar of Persian language, literature, and culture (FIGURE 1)….

ARCHIVES i. TURKISH ARCHIVES CONCERNING IRAN Ottoman archive materials are important not only for the history of the Ottoman Empire,…

NEẒĀMI QUNAVI (Neẓāmi of Konya), also known as Neẓāmi Qaramāni (d. 1469-73?), poet in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish. We have…

ŠĀH-NĀMA TRANSLATIONS i. INTO TURKISH Turks have been influenced by the Šāh-nāma since the advent of the Saljuqs in Persia….

OTTOMAN-PERSIAN RELATIONS i. UNDER SULTAN SELIM I AND SHAH ESMĀʿIL I The dynamics of Ottoman-Safavid relations during the almost contemporaneous…