Sehi Bey (

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. ...

: Sehî Bey), (1471?–1548) was an Ottoman poet and bibliographer. He was the first one to compile a ''

tezkire ''Tezkire'' (), from Arabic '' tadhkirah'' meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum",Kiliç, Filiz. (2007). “The Tezkires of Poets: Indispendable [sicSources in Our Literature History” translated from Turkish to English by ...

'' (bibliographical dictionary of poets and poetry), a genre which would have many followers until the 19th century. Sehi Bey was born in Edirne. Together with his friend, poet İsa Necati, Necati (d.1509), he served as katib (secretary) to Princes Şehzade Mahmud (son of Mehmed III), Şehzade Mahmud, son of

Bayezid II Bayezid II (; ; 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid consolidated the Ottoman Empire, thwarted a pro-Safavid dynasty, Safavid rebellion and finally abdicated his throne ...

, and Süleyman, the later would become known as

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. He was in charge of many ''

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s'' located in Edirne and

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, being a chief trustee, in

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'' mütevelli''.
He is mostly remembered for the ''tezkire'', ''Heşt Behişt'' (Eight Springs), which he finished in 1538. 2 other editions would follow until 1548. It narrated the work and life of 241 poets and was very well received and supported by the Ottoman high social circles. It served as basic source for later study of

Ottoman poetry The poetry of the Ottoman Empire, or Ottoman ''Divan'' poetry, is little known outside modern Turkey, which forms the heartland of what was once the Ottoman Empire. It is, however, a rich and ancient poetic tradition that lasted for nearly 700 ye ...

. Sehi Bey did work also on his own poetry, collected in a '' diwan''.
He died in 1548 (955 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bey, Sehi Divan poets from the Ottoman Empire People from Edirne Male poets from the Ottoman Empire 1470s births 1548 deaths 15th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 15th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire Turkish-language poets

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