Baki

E100669

Baki was a prominent 16th-century Ottoman Turkish poet renowned for his refined ghazals and mastery of classical divan literature.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Baki canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ottoman poet
divan poet
ghazal poet
lyric poet
activeInCentury 16th century
birthPlace Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
birthYear 1526
burialPlace Istanbul
citizenship Ottoman Empire
deathPlace Istanbul
Ottoman Empire
deathYear 1600
education madrasas of Istanbul
ethnicity Turks
surface form: Turk
floruit reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
fullName Mahmud Abdülbaki
genre classical Ottoman divan poetry
ghazal
qasida
givenName Mahmud
honorificTitle Sultan of Poets
influenced later Ottoman divan poets
influencedBy Fuzuli
Persian classical poets
knownFor eloquent use of Ottoman Turkish
mastery of classical divan style
refined ghazals
languageOfWorkOrName Ottoman Turkish
literaryStyle ornate and musical diction
movement Ottoman Divan literature
surface form: Divan literature
nativeName باقی
notableWork Divan of Baki
Elegy for Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
occupation Islamic scholar
jurist
poet
penName Baki self-link
positionHeld Anatolian kazasker
Rumelian kazasker
qadi of Istanbul
religion Islam
servedUnder Murad III
Selim II
Suleiman the Magnificent
wroteAbout love
nature
praise of rulers
wine

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.