Iqbâlî (Sultan Mustafa II)

Mustafa II succeeded his uncle Ahmed II in 1695 and led his army against the Austrians; he wrote verse under the pen-name Iqbali.

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.