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Also Known As Ömer • Nefʾi of Erzurum
Born c.1572 • Turkey
Died 1635 • IstanbulTurkey

Kemalpaşazâde
Turkish historian
ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī
Turkish poet
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Ziya Gökalp
Turkish author
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Kemal, Namik
Namık Kemal
Turkish author and social reformer
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
Nazım Hikmet
Turkish author
Anvarī
Persian poet
Taceddin Ahmedi
Turkish author
Kanık, Orhan Veli
Orhan Veli Kanık
Turkish poet
Khaqani
Khāqānī
Persian poet
İbrahim Şinasi
Turkish author

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