'Ârif

'Arif was a distinguished member of the legal profession, famed for his learning and for the elegance with which he wrote the taliq script; he composed a long poem on the Prophet's Night-journey and a complete Divan.

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.