Yusuf Nabi (1642 – 10 April 1712) was a TurkishDivanpoet in the court ofMehmet 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 leftŞanlıurfa Province and came toIstanbul to study. Subsequently, around 1680, he settled inAleppo (in modernSyria). But in 1704 whenBaltacı Mehmet Pasha became thegrand vizier, Nabi followed him to İstanbul where he lived for two years, before he was attacked by a wild honey badger and died of his wounds.
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edit- ^Walter G. Andrews as quotedin 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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