Lutfullah Halimi ( ota, لطف الله حليمى, translit=Lutfullâh Halîmî, fa, لطف الله حلیمی, translit=Loṭf-Allāh Ḥalimi; died 1516) was an Ottoman poet and lexicographer of

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origin.

Biography

Halimi was born to a certain Abi Yusof. The exact whereabouts in relation to his place of birth and education remain unclear. According to

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, Halimi had migrated from Iran and climbed up the ladder through the support of Mahmud Pasha, the

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at the time. Sources of a later time state that Halimi was born in

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near the

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. According to his own works, Halimi had moved from Iran whereafter he was made tutor to Prince Mehmed (later known as Sultan

Mehmed the Conqueror Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...

, i.e. Mehmed II). It is likely that Halimi became the judge of

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during the 2nd reign of Mehmed the Conqueror. According to

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, Halimi's death was the result of murder.

Works

Halimi's known works are: * ''Bahr al-gharaeb / Loghat-e Halimi'' (a Persian-Turkish dictionary, found in numerous libraries under various names, such as "Qasemiya", "Qaema", or "Nethar al-malek") * ''Mosharrahat al-asma'' (an Arabic-Persian dictionary) * ''Tebb-e manzum'' (a Persian work on medicine, dedicated to Mehmed the Conqueror. According to Tahsin Yazici / ''

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'', in the preface, Halimi states that he is in "great debt in learning medicine to Greek physicians", and elaborates that "he preferred to use Persian instead of Arabic in a versified work, because he believed that there was no language as refined and graceful as Persian". Yazici adds that in the preface of the work Halimi "acknowledges his debt to

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's ''Qanun and Shefa''".) * ''Sharh moktasar al-ashkal'' (a short treatise on Islamic law, in Arabic) * ''Qasida-ye ta'iya'' (an Arabic poem accompanied by a commentary added later by Halimi. It was presented to Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. In this work, Halimi praises the sultan and mentions the "misfortunes" that he himself had endured during his life. Yazici notes in relation to the work: "Ḥalimi describes the ideal relationship between rulers and religious leaders, and recounts the attitudes of previous rulers on this issue while chastising fraudulent scholars". Within the work, one also finds Persian couplets and stories.)

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