Poet and statesman (b. 1840, İstanbul -
d. 1926, İstanbul). He is the grandfather of the poet Nazım Hikmet. After
finishing high school, he worked as a general secretary in Adana, Konya,
Bitlis, Halep, Kastamonu and Mersin for a while. He was appointed as the
Governor of the Sub-District of Kayseri in 1898. Within the four years he served in Kayseri,
he had the domes of Hunat Mosque and the tombs of Seyyid Burhaneddin and Zeynel
Abidin repaired and carried out various important tasks. After Kayseri, he
served as the Governor of Diyarbakır, Halep, Konya, Sivas and
Thessalonica. He was connected to the
Sufi Cult. Other than this work Ahdi
Şehriyari (Contract of the Sultanate), which discussed improvements in the
field of education during the rule of Abdulhamid, his works related to Sufism
were published
