Fehmî (1564–1596), also referred as Kınalızâde Mehmet Fehmi, Kınalızâde Fehmi Çelebi or Molla Mohammed (Mehmet) Fehmi was an Ottoman diwan poet. A scion of the prominent Kınalızâde family from

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, today's

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, back then part of the Damascus Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, where his father was working as a ''

kadı A ''kadi'' ( ar, قاضي '; tr, kadı) was an official in the Ottoman Empire. The term ''kadi'' refers to judges who preside over matters in accordance with Islamic law, but in the Ottoman Empire, the ''kadi'' also became a crucial part of the ...

'' (judge). He was the son of the well-known scholar Ali Çelebi, and brother of the other poet

Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman ''tezkires'' (bibliographical dictionary ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fehmi Divan poets from the Ottoman Empire People from Damascus 1564 births 1596 deaths 16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire