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

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of the

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, where his father was working as a ''

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'' (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 Empire, 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'' (bibliograph ...

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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