Turkish & Ottoman

Figânî

d. 1526


Figani, of Qaraman, was a secretary to Prince 'Abdu-'llah, one of Sultan Bayezid's sons.

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.

  1. Aflame That Picture's Sabre in Its Deadliness

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