Tahsin Yazici
(1922-2002), Turkish scholar of Persian language, literature, and culture. See YAZICI, Tahsin.
- FEVZİ EFENDİ, MEḤMED
FEVZİ (FAWZĪ) EFENDİ, MEḤMED, Ottoman author who wrote some books in Persian (b. Tavas district of Denizli province, 1826; d….
- FAŻLĪ, MEḤMED
FAŻLĪ, MEḤMED (Moḥammad; or ʿAlī; see Kašf al-ẓonūn II, p. 1506) ÇAĞDAŞLAN Turkish poet, known also as Qara Fażlī (b….
- FEHİM SÜLEYMAN EFENDİ
FEHİM SÜLEYMAN (FAHĪM SOLAYMĀN) EFENDİ, a Persian teacher and poet of Turkish origin (b. Istanbul, 1203/1789; d. 1262/1846). There is…
- FATTĀḤĪ NĪŠĀBŪRĪ, MOḤAMMAD
FATTĀḤĪ NĪŠĀBŪRĪ, MOḤAMMAD, b. Yaḥyā Sībak, Persian poet of the Timurid era, born in Nīšāpūr (hence his nesba Nīšābūrī) at…
- ʿEZZAT PĀŠĀ, MOḤAMMAD
ʿEZZAT PĀŠĀ, MOḤAMMAD (Mehmet İzzet Paşa; b. Kayseri, 1 Ḏu’l-ḥejja 1258/5 January, 1843, d. Istanbul 1332/1914), author of a Persian-Turkish…
- ESʿAD EFENDİ, MEHMED
ESʿAD EFENDİ, MEHMED (Moḥammad Asʿad Efendi; b. Istanbul, 10 Moḥarram 978/14 June 1570, d. Istanbul, 14 Šaʿbān 1034/21 June 1625),…
- EMĪN YOMNĪ, MEḤMED
EMĪN YOMNĪ, MEḤMED (Moḥammad Amīn); b. Solaymānīya in Persia, 1261/1845, d. Istanbul, 28 Šaʿbān 1342/5 April 1924), Turkish poet and…
- ESʿAD DEDE, MEHMED
ESʿAD DEDE, MEHMED (Moḥammad Asʿad Dada), Turkish author and Sufi poet of the Mawlawī order (b. in Salonika, 1257/1841; d….
- DEDE ʿOMAR RŪŠANĪ
DEDE ʿOMAR RŪŠANĪ (b. Güzel Ḥeṣār, Aydın province, in western Anatolia, at an indeterminate date; d. Tabrīz, 892/1487), Turkish Sufi…
- DEDE YŪSOF SĪNAČĀK
DEDEYŪSOF SĪNAČĀK (b. Yenice on the Vardar in Ottoman Māqadūnīā [modern Macedonia] at an indeterminate date, d. Istanbul, 861/1546), Mawlawī…
- DÜRRI EFENDI, AḤMAD
DÜRRI EFENDI (Dorrī Afandī), AḤMAD (b. Van, date unknown, d. Istanbul, 1135/1722), Ottoman poet, civil servant, and diplomat who served…
- ESMĀʿĪL ḤAQQĪ BORSAVĪ
ESMĀʿĪL ḤAQQĪ BORSAVĪ (or Oskodārī) b. MOṢṬAFĀ, Shaikh Abu’l-Fedāʾ; Turkish scholar, theologian, and mystic (b. Aydos near Edirne, 1063/1652; d….
- ELĪF EFENDI, Ḥaṣīrīzāda
ELĪFEFENDI, Ḥaṣīrīzāda (b. in Sütlüce, Rajab 1266/May 1850; d. 28 Jomādā I 1345/4 December 1926), Turkish poet and scholar. He…
- EBN BĪBĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN
EBN BĪBĪ, NĀṢER-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN b. Moḥammad b. ʿAlī Jaʿfarī Roḡadī, Persian historian and man of letters. He was the son…
- EBRĀHĪM DEDE ŠĀHEDĪ
EBRĀHĪM DEDE ŠĀHEDĪ, Turkish poet and lexicographer. His father Hodāyī Ṣāleḥ, who had been educated in Persia, was appointed by…
- DĀʿĪ
DĀʿĪ, pen name of AḤMAD b. Ebrāhīm b. Moḥammad, Turkish scholar and poet who wrote in both Persian and Turkish….
- DĀNEŠMAND
DĀNEŠMAND, Amir Ḡāzī Taylu Gümüš-tigin Aḥmad (or Moḥammad) Dānešmand (d. 498/1104), founder of a Turkman dynasty in northern Cappadocia toward…
- ČELEBĪ, FATḤ-ALLĀH ʿĀREF
ČELEBĪ (Čalabī), FATḤ-ALLĀH ʿĀREF or ʿĀrefī, 10th/16th-century poet and author of a Šāh-nāma (Solaymān-nāma) extolling the Ottoman rulers. All contemporary…
- ČELEBĪ, ʿĀREF
ČELEBĪ (Čalabī), ʿĀREF (670-719/1272-1320), the son of Bahāʾ-al-Dīn Solṭān Walad and the grandson of Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad Rūmī. His mother was…
- QOṬB-AL-DIN ḤAYDAR ZĀVI
QOṬB-AL-DIN ḤAYDAR ZĀVI (Zāvagi), a famous Sufi of Turkish origin and founder of the Ḥaydariya sect of the Qalandariya order. …
- JALĀLZĀDA, MOṢṬAFĀ ÇELEBI
JALĀLZĀDA, MOṢṬAFĀ ÇELEBI, also known as “Koja Nişancı” (Ḵᵛāja Nešānči), Ottoman historian and administrator (b. Tosya, ca. 895-900/1490-94; d. Istanbul,…
- ḤOSĀM-AL-DIN ʿALI BEDLISI
ḤOSĀM-AL-DIN ʿALI BEDLISI NURBAḴŠI, Kurdish Sufi author of a commentary on the Qurʾān among other works (d. 900/1494-95), and father…
- ḤEKMAT BEY
ḤEKMAT BEY (Hikmet Bey), ʿĀREF, Ottoman šayḵ-al-eslām (supreme authority in religious matters) from 1262/1845 to 1270/1854 and poet in Turkish,…
- ḤAYĀTI, ABDÜLHAY
ḤAYĀTI, ABDÜLHAY (ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy), 9th/15th century poet who wrote a series of Turkish poems modeled on Neẓāmi’s Ḵamsa. Nothing is known…
- ḤASAN B. ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN
ḤASAN B. ʿABD-AL-MOʾMEN, ḤOSĀM-AL-DIN ḴOʾI, scribe, poet and lexicographer from Azarbaijan of the 7th/13th century. Little is known about his…
- ḤALIMI, LOṬF-ALLĀH
ḤALIMI, LOṬF-ALLĀH b. Abi Yusof, an Ottoman poet and lexicographer of Persian origin (d. 922/1516). It is not clear when…
- ḤĀFEẒ-E ʿAJAM
ḤĀFEẒ-e ʿAJAM, HĀFEẒ-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD b. Aḥmad b. ʿĀdel Çelebi, scholar of religion and author (d. 957/1550). He was born at…
- ḤABIB EṢFAHĀNI
ḤABIB EṢFAHĀNI, Mirzā, Iranian poet, grammarian and translator, who spent much of his life in exile in Ottoman Turkey (1835-93;…
- GOLŠANI ṢĀRUḴĀNI
GOLŠANI ṢĀRUḴĀNI, a 15th-century Turkish poet who also wrote in Persian. His original name is unknown, and virtually no information…
- GOLŠANI, MOḤYI MOḤAMMAD
GOLŠANI, MOḤYI MOḤAMMAD, b. Fatḥ-Allāh b. Abi Ṭāleb, scholar and author in Persian and Turkish and inventor of an artificial…
- ḤOBAYŠ B. EBRĀHIM B. MOḤAMMAD TEFLISI
ḤOBAYŠ B. EBRĀHIM B. MOḤAMMAD TEFLISI, author of numerous scientific works (d. ca. 600/1203-04) who lived in Anatolia. Ḥobayš’s exact…
- ḤĀMEDI EṢFAHĀNI
ḤĀMEDI EṢFAHĀNI (or Ḥāmedi ʿAjam), a poet of Persian origin (b. Isfahan, 843/1439; d. Bursa, ca. 890/1485) at the court…
- GOLŠANĪ, EBRĀHIM
GOLŠANĪ, EBRĀHIM, b. Moḥammad b. Ebrāhim b. Šehāb-al-Din (d. 9 Šawwāl 940/23 April 1534), Sufi poet and the founder of…
- GÖLPINARLI, ABDÜLBAKI
GÖLPINARLI, ABDÜLBAKI, Turkish scholar noted in particular for his studies of the Turkish Sufi orders (b. Istanbul, 10 Ramażān 1317/12…
- ḠOBĀRI, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN
ḠOBĀRI, ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN b. ʿAbd-Allāh, Ottoman poet, calligrapher, and Sufi who wrote in both Turkish and Persian (d. 974/1566). According to…
- GENÇOSMAN, MEHMED NURÎ
GENÇOSMAN, MEHMED NURÎ, Turkish poet and translator of Persian works (b. 1897 in the Ağın district of Elazığ; d. Istanbul,…
- ḠĀLEB DADA, MOḤAMMAD ASʿAD
ḠĀLEB DADA, MOḤAMMAD ASʿAD (Mehmed Esad Galib Dede) also known as Shaikh Ḡāleb (Şeyh Galib), poet in Turkish and Persian…
- ḴᵛĀJAZĀDA ASʿAD EFENDI
ḴᵛĀJAZĀDA ASʿAD EFENDI, MOḤAMMAD (MEḤMED) (b. Istanbul, 10 Moḥarram 978/14 June 1570, d. Istanbul 14 Šaʿbān 1034/22 May 1625), Ottoman…
- BAYĀNI, JĀR-ALLĀH-ZĀDA
BAYĀNI,JĀR-ALLĀH-ZĀDA, Shaikh Moṣtafā (d. 1005-6/ 1597), a Turkish poet who composed taḵmis (poems consisting of stanzas of five lines [meşrāʿ]…
- BAHĀʾI TABRIZI
BAHĀʾITABRIZI, AḤMAD (b. Tabriz, 1874, d. Istanbul, 1 June 1925), Persian calligrapher and poet. He began studying calligraphy in his…
- ATEŞ, AHMED
ATEŞ, AHMED (Aḥmad Ātaš), Turkish Orientalist and scholar of Persian literature (b. Ağcaköy near Birecik in southeastern Turkey, 1911/ d….
- PERSIAN AUTHORS OF ASIA MINOR PART 2
—ŠŠŠ— [Şakir Ağa, Aḥmed (Šāker Āḡā, Aḥmad), (d. 1199/1785). The author of the Taqwim-e sāl-e 1185-1186 (OALT, I, pp. 499-500;…
- PERSIAN AUTHORS OF ASIA MINOR PART 1
PERSIAN AUTHORS OF ASIA MINOR (PĀRSINEVISĀN-E ĀSIĀ-YE SAḠIR) Introduction. After converting to Islam the Turks grew familiar with the Persian…
- HAMZA NİGARİ
HAMZA NİGARİ (Ḥamza Negāri) Ḥāji Mir Ḥamza Efendi b. Mir Pāšā, Sufi and poet from Azarbaijan, who wrote in both…
- ḤOLWI, JAMĀL-AL-DIN MAḤMUD
ḤOLWI, JAMĀL-AL-DIN MAḤMUD, biographer of the leaders of the Ḵalwati Sufi order and minor poet (b. Istanbul, 982/1574, d. 1064/1654)….
- ʿĀṢEM EFENDĪ
ʿĀṢEM EFENDĪ, SAYYED AḤMAD (1168/1755-1236/1819), an Ottoman Turkish linguist and chronicler, known as Mütercim (translator) in recognition of his translations…
- ʿALĪ AKBAR ḴEṬĀʾĪ
ʿALĪ AKBAR ḴEṬĀʾĪ (9th-10th/15th-16th Cent.), author of the Persian Ḵeṭāy-nāma or “Book of Cathay,” i.e., of China. Although his surname…
- AFLĀKĪ
AFLĀKĪ ʿĀREFĪ, ŠAMS-AL-DĪN, b. between ca. 685/1286 and 690/1291, author of texts on the virtues of Jalāl-al-dīn Rūmī and his…
- ʿADNĪ, MAḤMŪD PĀŠĀ
ʿADNĪ, MAḤMŪD PĀŠĀ (879/1474), Ottoman vizier and poet, better known in Turkish literature by his pen name ʿAdnī. Born to…
- ʿABDĪ
ʿABDĪ, pen name of ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN PASHA, Ottoman official and historian, d. Raǰab, 1103/March, 1692. He was educated at the palace…
- ʿABDALLĀH, ṢĀRĪ
ʿABDALLĀH, ṢĀRĪ (922-1071/1584-1660), Ottoman scholar, mystic, poet, and commentator of Rūmī’s Maṯnavī. He was one of the sons of a…
- ABDĀL, QARA ŠEMSĪ
ABDĀL, QARA ŠEMSĪ (1244-1303/1828-86), a Turkish poet who also wrote poetry in Persian. He was born in Konya. As his…
- ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED HAMADĀNĪ
ʿABD-AL-VĀḤED B. JALĀL-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD AL-HAMADĀNĪ, the son of a shaikh of the Naqšbandī order. Originally from Hamadān, he migrated to…
- ʿABD-AL-QĀDER BALḴĪ
ʿABD-AL-QĀDER BALḴĪ (1839-1923), an Ottoman Sufi and poet who came originally from Balḵ. He was born at Ḵānqāh, one of…
- ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ LAʿLĪZĀDA
ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ LAʿLĪZĀDA (d. 1746 A.D.), Ottoman scholar, son of Shaikh Laʿlī Meḥmed, the grandson of Sarı ʿAbdallāh, a commentator on…
- ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ QARA ČELEBIZĀDA
ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ QARA ČELEBIZĀDA (1591-1658), an Ottoman historian and the translator of some Persian works, born in Istanbul in 1000/1591. He…
- ʿABD-al-ʿAZĪZ ḤEKĪMBĀŠĪ
ʿABD-AL-ʿAZĪZ ḤEKĪMBĀŠĪ (d. 1197/1782-83), an Ottoman physician, son of the Ottoman historian Ṣobḥī. He served as chief physician at the…
- KAMĀL PĀŠĀ-ZĀDA, ŠAMS-AL-DIN AḤMAD
KAMĀL PĀŠĀ-ZĀDA, ŠAMS-AL-DIN AḤMAD, also known as Kamālpāšā-Oḡlu and Ebn-e Kamāl (873-940/1468-1534), prolific Ottoman scholar, author of several works in…
