Yusuf Nabi
Yusuf Nabi (1642 – 10 April 1712) was a Turkish Divan poet in the court of Mehmet IV. He was famous for "his brilliant lyrics filled with popular sayings and critiques of the age and verses commemorating innumerable important occasions."[1]
At the age of 24 Nabi left Şanlıurfa Province and came to Istanbul. He also lived in Aleppo (modern Syria). But when Baltacı Mehmet Pasha became the grand vizier he returned to İstanbul where he died.
Notes
- ↑ Walter G. Andrews as quoted in Orga, Atesh (ed.) (2007) "Istanbul: Portrait of a City" Istanbul: A Collection of the Poetry of Place Eland, London, p. 39, ISBN 978-0-9550105-9-0; see Andrews, Walter G. (1997) Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, ISBN 0-292-70472-0.
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