Fuzuli (poet)
Fuzuli was born at approximately 1494 in the Safavid Empire, although his actual date of birth is unknown. He is one of the most famous and greatest , specifically of the Ottoman poets and contributors to Turkish literature. He had a perfect knowledge of Turkish, Arabic and Persian, the three great eastern languages of the time, has written his collected poems (Divan) in three different languages. Besides his kaside, each being a monument, he has given us the best and the most sensitive examples of lyrical Turkish poetry, Leyla ile Mecnun. This famous love and pain mesnevi, which is considered to be the most important work of Fuzuli, occupies a special place among the work on the theme of these tragic and legendary lovers by numerous Turkish and Iranian poets. In his work titled hadikad-üs- Sueda he describes the tragedy of Kerbela which is an extremely sad incident of the Islamic history. This literary piece is one of the best works produced in Turkish. He also has numerous other works of importance. In 1556 he died of cholera in Kerbela.
Works Cited:
Turkish Ministry of Culture
Poetry Portal