Schloar
and Divan* poet (b. 1596, İstanbul - d.
1654). He was the son of Abdülaziz Efendi, one of the military judges of
Rumelia and the grandson of historian and Muslim preacher, Saadeddin Efendi. He
was raised at Madrasah Muslim Theology School. He worked as a teacher in
İstanbul at theological schools, and as a Muslim judge in Thessalonica,
Damascus, Aleppo, Edirne and İstanbul. He was also a military judge in Anatolia
and Rumelia and the Head of Religious Affairs. He was relived of his duties
when he seized and imprisoned an English criminal and refused to hand him back
to the English Ambassador, but he was reinstated later.
Baha,
who gave a judicial decision about the “tobacco dispute”, is known for his
forty odes and his nazires*.
He is counted as one of the master poets of his time with his sensitive and
witty poems. His Divan* was published by Saadettin Nüzhed Ergun in the book; Şeyhülislâm Bahayi- Hayatı ve Eserleri
(Şeyhülislâm Bahayi- His Life and Works, 1933)