Bayburtlu Zihnî

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Mehmet Emin

    Folk poet (b. 1785 / 1800, Bayburt - d. 1859, Trabzon). His real name was Mehmet Emin. He was taught at Erzurum and Trabzon Madrasah Muslim Schools. He came to İstanbul in 1815 and stayed there for about ten years. He was treated well by the statesmen to whom he had presented eulogies. Upon the Russian invasion in Eastern Anatolia in 1828, he returned to his hometown. He wrote sad poems as a reaction to the ruined state of Bayburt. While returning from Mecca (where he had gone on pilgrimage) in 1834, he went to Egypt, where he praised Abdülmecid with a special poem on his ascension to the Ottoman throne. He served Reşit Paşa as clerk in the navy that was leaving for Acre. On his return, he stayed in İstanbul for a period of time and then worked as a civil servant in Hopa, Karaağaç, Of and Erzincan after 1847. He lived in Trabzon from 1855 to 1859. He died in Ulasa village near Trabzon on his way to Bayburt. Later, his tomb was removed to Bayburt (1936).

Bayburtlu Zihni wrote a Divan* consisting of kaside*, odes and poems praising the Prophet Muhammad with the influence of classic Divan* poetry. However, he was known mainly for his folk poems written in syllabic meter and not included in his Divan (Divan*). His famous free-form folk poem written for the town of Bayurt that was destroyed during the Russian invasion in 1828 starts with the following lines:

 

As I arrived, I saw the enemies had forced the people to leave

That the children were gone, home was deserted”

 

His Divan-ı Zihnî (Divan* of Zihni) consisting of prosodic poems was published by his son Ahmed Kehavi Efendi (1876). In addition he wrote one more work named Sergüzeştnâme (Book of Adventures) that gives information about his life and also consists of poems most of which are satires.

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