Kul Nesîmî, or simply Nesîmî, real name Ali
was an
Ottoman Alevi
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Bektashi
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poet, who lived in the 17th century in Anatolia.
Very little is known about this poet except that certain political events found an expression in his poetry, such as
Ottoman conquest of
Baghdad
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in 1640. He wrote in the same tradition as such earlier poets as
Nasimi, with whom he is frequently confused, as well as in the tradition of
Ismail I
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and
Pir Sultan Abdal
Pir Sultan Abdal (born Haydar) was a prominent Turkish poeta b Gülseren Özdemir. "Pîr Sultan Abdal Animizm İnançlar" (PDF). Çukurova University. 2 February 2014. Accessed: 5 November 2008. and an important religious figure in Alevism of T ...
.
References
Poetry by Kul Nesîmî
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Turkish Alevis
17th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire
Turkish-language poets
Turkish-language singers
17th-century births
Year of death unknown
Turkish Muslims
Ottoman Sufis
Turkish Sufis
Bektashi Order
Male poets from the Ottoman Empire
17th-century male writers