Taj ad-Dīn İbrahim ibn Hizr Ahmedi (1334–1413), better known by his

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Taceddin Ahmedi, was an Ottoman poet and is considered one of the greatest poets in 14th-century

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. Born in Anatolia, he went to study with

Akmal al-Din al-Babarti Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (), was a Hanafi scholar, jurist, scholastic Maturidi theologian, mufassir (Quranic exegete), muhaddis (Hadith scholar), grammarian (nahawi), an eloquent orator, and prolific author with more than 40 works to his name. He ...

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as a young man. As a young man, he visited the court of

Bayezid I Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...

, and attended the

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, where he met and wrote and

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. After Bayezid's death, he dedicated his work titled the '' Iskendername'', the earliest surviving work of Ottoman historiography and the earliest Turkish rendition of the '' Alexander Romance'', to

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.'''' Modeled after the '' Iskandarnameh'' of Neẓāmī, in over 8,000 couplets Ahmedi uses the outline of

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's conquests to offer discourse on philosophy, theology, and history. After his patron's death, he was in the employ of

Mehmed I Mehmed I (; – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (, "the noble-born") or ''Kirişçi'' (, "lord's son"), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun, he fought with hi ...

until his death in 1413.

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{{Authority control Turks from the Ottoman Empire Poets from the Ottoman Empire 1334 births 1413 deaths 14th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire

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