Āgehī (died 1577 or 1578) was an
Ottoman poet and historian.
Biography
He was born in
Yenice-i Vardar (modern Giannitsa) under the name Manṣūr. As a
mudarris and
qadi, he traveled to many places including
Istanbul and
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula (; tr, Gelibolu Yarımadası; grc, Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, ) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles ...
. As a poet, he is famous for a
qasida addressed to his sweetheart, a sailor, and is written with a large amount of
nautical slang. Although he was well-known, his poetry was not collected into a
diwan. In history, his ''Tarikh-i Ghazat-i Sigetwar'' describes
Suleiman I's campaign on
Szigetvár. No surviving manuscript is known.
References
*
Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, 2013, ''s.v.'
Āgehī
Male poets from the Ottoman Empire
16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire
1577 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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People from Giannitsa