Şeyh Galip

Mehmed Esad, known as Şeyh Galip or Galib Dede (1757–1799), was a Mevlevi dervish and sheikh of the Galata convent in Istanbul, and one of the foremost poets of the late Ottoman Romantic school. Sultan Selim III conferred on him the office of sheikh.

His masterpiece is the mystical romance Husn ü Aşk ('Beauty and Love'), from which two passages are given here. E. J. W. Gibb, who gave the first English account of his diwan, praised the strong and glowing verse of his lyric poems.