Şeyhi, Sinan

Şeyhi, Sinan

▪ Turkish poet
Şeyhi also spelled  Sheykih  
died 1428, Kütahya, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey]

      poet who was one of the most important figures in early Ottoman literature.

      Little is known of his life. Besides being a poet, Şeyhi seems to have been a man of great learning and a disciple of the famous Turkish mystic and saint Haci (Hajji) Bayram Veli of Ankara, founder of the Bayrami order of dervishes. Şeyhi also was reputedly a skilled physician. A prolific poet, he is best known for his rendition of a popular love story in Islāmic literature, Hüsrev ü Şirin (“Khosrow and Shirin”). Inspired by the work of the same name by the great Persian poet Neẓāmī (d. 1209), Şeyhi's poem is written in māsnavī (“rhymed couplets”), and, although incomplete because of his sudden death, it is considered a masterpiece of eloquent and graceful verse. Other of his works include the lyric poems in his Dīvān (“Collected Poems”) and a satirical narrative, Harname (“The Book of the Ass”). It is to Hüsrev ü Şirin, however, that Şeyhi owes his fame. He is considered to have introduced the classical Persian style māsnavī into Ottoman literature.

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