Mihri Hatun
Mihri Hatun (also known as Lady Mihri and Mihri Khatun, Ottoman Turkish: مهری خاتون; "sun/light"; 1456/1460- c.1506), was an Ottoman poet. She was the daughter of a kadi (an Ottoman judge) and was born in Amasya. According to sources she spent most of her life in and near Amasya, in Anatolia.
Mihri Hatun
- Born
- 1460 · Amasya.
- Died
- 1506 · Amasya.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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Mihri Hatun (also known as Lady Mihri and Mihri Khatun, Ottoman Turkish: مهری خاتون; "sun/light"; 1456/1460- c.1506), was an Ottoman poet. She was the daughter of a kadi (an Ottoman judge) and was born in Amasya. According to sources she spent most of her life in and near Amasya, in Anatolia.
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Documentation places her as a member of the literary circle of Şehzade Ahmed, the son of Sultan Bayezid II. She is referred to as the "Sappho of the Ottomans".
Mihrî Hatun, first gained attention with her poetry, attracting the notice and favor of Şehzade Bayezid II, and became part of the circle of poets around him. She achieved her main fame within the literary environment of Bayezid II. Lady Mihri's poems reveal an artist grounded in both Turkish and Persian literature, writing in such forms as the Gazel, as well as the recipient of a deep literary education. Modern critics, such as Bernard Lewis describe her style as “retaining remarkable freshness and simplicity.” One of her more popular lines goes as follows: “At one glance I love you With a thousand hearts Let the zealots think Loving is sinful Never mind Let me burn in the hellfire Of that sin.” Another is: “My heart burns in flames of sorrow Sparks and smoke rise turning to the sky Within me the heart has taken fire like a candle My body, whirling, is a lantern illuminated by your image.”
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1460
Mihri Hatun born at Amasya.
1506
Mihri Hatun died at Amasya.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q728018: Mihri Hatun
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- “Mihri Hatun”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Mihri Hatun (1460–1515), Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire, 2025
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 119547600, Mihri Hatun.
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- 1.Alıcı, Lütfi. Mihrî Hatun, One of The 15th Century Poets, and Her Redd-i Matla‘ Gazels. Dergipark.
- 2.Havlioglu, 2
- 3.Lewis, 207
- 4.John Freely. The Grand Turk : Sultan Mehmet II - conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of two seas. I.B. Tauris. 2009. 9780857719287.
- 5.Halman, 35
- 6.Damrosch, 786
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Damrosch and April Alliston. The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The 17th and 18th Centuries, the 19th Century, and the 20th Century: V. II (D, E, F) Longman, Inc.
- Halman, Talât Sait and Jayne L. Warner. Nightingales & pleasure gardens: Turkish love poems. Syracuse University Press (2005) .
- Havlioğlu, Didem. “On the Margins and between the Lines: Ottoman Women Poets from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.” Turkish Historical Review 1, no. 1 (n.d.): 25–54. https://www.academia.edu/806853/On_the_margins_and_between_the_lines_Ottoman_women_poets_from_the_fifteenth_to_the_twentieth_centuries
- Havlioglu, Didem. Poetic Voice En/Gendered: Mihri Hatun’s Resistance to ‘Femininity'. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Sohbet-i Osmani Series (2010).
- Lewis, Bernard. Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems. Princeton University Press; Ltr ptg edition. (2001).
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