Ahdi of Baghdad (d.1593), also referred in

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as Bağdadlı Ahdi Ahmed Çelebi, was an Ottoman and

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era poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. He was one of the first four Ottoman poets to write a ''

tezkire ''Tezkire'' ( ar, تذکرة), from Arabic '' tadhkirah'' meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum", is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. T ...

'' (bibliographical dictionary of poetry). Ahdi was born in

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and was of

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descent. His birth name was Ahmed bin Shemsi. In the year 960, by the

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, he went to

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. There he learned the

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and made contact with many distinguished poets of the time. After residing in the capital for 11 years, he returned to Baghdad (971 IC). There he continued being part of the poetic circles. The Ottoman historian and traveler

Mustafa Âlî Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi (b. 28 April 1541 – d. 1600) was an Ottoman historian, bureaucrat and major literary figure. Life and work Mustafa Ali was born on 28 April, 1541 in Gelibolu, a provincial town on the ...

mentions Ahdi as one of the best known Arabic poets in Baghdad during 1585-1586, out of 30 in total.
Ahdi's main work is the ''tezkire'' named ''Gülşen-i Şuara'' (Rosebed of Poets), which he wrote the same year on his return home. It was different from the previous ones written until then because it covered only author's time contemporary poets. It was finished in 1563, and was dedicated to Prince Selim, afterwards known as

Sultan Selim II Selim II (Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى ''Selīm-i sānī'', tr, II. Selim; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond ( tr, Sarı Selim) or Selim the Drunk ( tr, Sarhoş Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire f ...

.
Ahdi died in Baghdad towards Selim's reign end.

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