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Kul Nesîmî | |
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| Era | Ottoman |
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| Religion | Shia Islam (Twelver orAlevi-Bektashi) |
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| Period in office | 17th century |
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Kul Nesîmî, or simplyNesîmî, real nameAli[1] was anOttomanAlevi-Bektashi poet, who lived in the 17th century in Anatolia.
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Very little is known about this poet except that certain political events found an expression in his poetry, such asOttoman conquest ofBaghdad in 1640. He wrote in the same tradition as such earlier poets asNasimi, with whom he is frequently confused, as well as in the tradition ofIsmail I andPir Sultan Abdal.
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