Nishânî

Nishani, Jelal-Zade Mustafa, was the great historian of Suleyman's reign and held some of the highest offices of state, among them that of Nishanji, Cipher-writer to the Sultan.

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.