Ahmedî

Ahmedi, born at Sivas, is described by Gibb as the first and perhaps the greatest of the Ottoman epic poets, whose Iskender-Nama is an epitome of Oriental history, mysticism, philosophy and science.

The poems here are taken from E. J. W. Gibb's Ottoman Poems (1882), the first English verse translations of Ottoman poetry; dates and biographical details follow Gibb's Biographical Notices.