Mukhlisî (Prince Mustafa)

Prince Mustafa, heir to Suleyman's throne, is represented by Gibb's sources as talented, courageous, generous and refined; he wrote under the pen-name Mukhlisi.

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.