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  "ar": "أحمد، المعروف باسمه القلمي نشاطي (وُلد نحو 1600 – توفي 1674)، شاعر ديوان عثماني من أدرنة وشيخ مولوي. كان مريدًا للشيخ آغا زاده محمد دده في غاليبولي، وخدم عند ضريح جلال الدين الرومي في قونية، ثم تولّى منذ 1670 مشيخة خانقاه المولوية المرادية في أدرنة حتى وفاته. وهو من أئمة الغزل ومن روّاد أسلوب «سبك هندي» في التركية، وله «شرح مشكلات عرفي» في شعر أستاذه الفارسي عرفي الشيرازي.",
  "en": "Ahmed, known by his pen name Neşâtî (born c. 1600 – died 1674), was an Ottoman divan poet of Edirne and a Mevlevi shaykh. A disciple of Ağazâde Mehmed Dede at Gelibolu, he served at the tomb of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Konya and from 1670 held the shaykhdom of the Muradiyye Mevlevihane in Edirne until his death. A master of the gazel and a pioneer of the Sebk-i Hindî style in Turkish, he wrote the Şerh-i Müşkilât-ı Urfî on his Persian master Urfî of Shiraz.",
  "ur": "احمد، اپنے قلمی نام نشاطی سے مشہور (پیدائش تقریباً 1600ء – وفات 1674ء)، ادرنہ کے عثمانی دیوان شاعر اور مولوی شیخ تھے۔ غالیبولی میں آغا زادہ محمد ددے کے مرید ہوئے، قونیہ میں جلال الدین رومی کے مزار پر خدمت کی، اور 1670ء سے وفات تک ادرنہ کی مرادیہ مولوی خانقاہ کے شیخ رہے۔ غزل کے استاد اور ترکی میں «سبکِ ہندی» کے بانیوں میں سے تھے؛ اپنے فارسی استاد عرفی شیرازی پر «شرح مشکلاتِ عرفی» لکھی۔"
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   "edtf": "1600",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "note": "Born at Edirne; the year is unknown. The English article speculates about 1600 on the evidence of his poem commemorating the winter of 1621–22, when the Bosphorus froze, and the TDV entry says only that he was born at the start of the seventeenth century. An estimated year is built on that stated basis and marked debated; the year spans 1008–1009 AH, so no Hijri year is built.",
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   "edtf": "1674",
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   "note": "Died at Edirne in office as shaykh of the Muradiyye Mevlevihane and was buried in the hazire of the Muradiyye Mosque there. The TDV entry pairs the death as 1085/1674, the pairing built here; the English and Turkish articles give 1674.",
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   "note": "Born at Edirne; the year is unknown. The English article speculates about 1600 on the evidence of his poem commemorating the winter of 1621–22, when the Bosphorus froze, and the TDV entry says only that he was born at the start of the seventeenth century. An estimated year is built on that stated basis and marked debated; the year spans 1008–1009 AH, so no Hijri year is built.",
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   "note": "Died at Edirne in office as shaykh of the Muradiyye Mevlevihane and was buried in the hazire of the Muradiyye Mosque there. The TDV entry pairs the death as 1085/1674, the pairing built here; the English and Turkish articles give 1674.",
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    "note": "Order membership and completed discipleship attested for the man himself in three independent texts. The English article states that he was a Sufi of the Mevlevi Order, first became affiliated with the order as a disciple of the shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede at Gelibolu and then at Beşiktaş, served for a time at the tomb of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Konya, and returned about 1670 to Edirne as shaykh of the Murâdiyye Mevlevîhâne, dying in that post. The Turkish article states that he became a dervish of Ağazâde Mehmed Efendi at the Gelibolu Mevlevihane and in 1670 was appointed to the Edirne Mevlevihane shaykhdom vacated by Osman Dede. The TDV entry states that he profited greatly from his shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede, postnişin of the Gelibolu Mevlevîhâne, was appointed shaykh of the Edirne Mevlevihane in 1081/1670, served four years and died in office. Under the founder's rule, attested order membership and personal mastership settle sufi at basis documented. Wikidata's religion statement files Islam generically and is not relied on.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia (revision 1316193721 of 11 October 2025), Turkish Wikipedia (revision 37028203 of 12 April 2026), Bayram Ali Kaya's entry in the TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (2007, online edition, read in-session 1 November 2026) and Wikidata Q3564095 (item revision 2554101272 of 6 October 2026, re-asserted identical on a second live query), fetched live in-session on 1 November 2026; the QID was grounded from the English article's own page property, the Turkish article agreeing. No Arabic, Persian or Urdu article exists. Existence checked against origin/main before building — no record holds this man under nesati or any name fragment; shirin-neshat is a different person, the contemporary artist. His name is given as Ahmed by the majority of sources and the TDV entry, one source claiming Süleyman, which the Turkish article reports as what is thought; the majority form is built and the minority claim kept as an alternate name. place/edirne exists on main. No record exists for his shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede and no group entity for the Mevlevi order, so the discipleship is stated in the faith note and prose without an edge.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحمد، المعروف باسمه القلمي «نشاطي»، شاعر ديوان عثماني من أدرنة وشيخ في الطريقة المولوية، توفي سنة 1674.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati} واسمه الحقيقي عند جمهور المصادر أحمد، وإن زعم مصدر واحد أنه سليمان، ويذكر مدخل موسوعة الإسلام التركية (TDV) أن بعضهم يسميه نشانجي أحمد دده أو نشاطي سليمان دده.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati} ويُعدّ من أئمة الغزل ومن روّاد «سبك هندي» في الشعر العثماني.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} ويُسجَّل مذهبه صوفيًّا بشهادة ثلاثة نصوص مستقلة تذكر انتسابه مريدًا للشيخ المولوي آغا زاده محمد دده ثم مشيخته لخانقاه المرادية المولوية في أدرنة.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الولادة والاسم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في أدرنة من أعمال تراقيا.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} ولا يُعرف عام ولادته على وجه التحديد، وإن رُجّح أنه نحو سنة 1600 استنادًا إلى قصيدته التي أرّخت شتاء 1621–22 حين غطى الجليد مضيق البوسفور في إسطنبول.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} ويكتفي مدخل الموسوعة بأنه وُلد في مطلع القرن السابع عشر، من أسرة نبيلة، وتعلّم في صباه علومًا شتى.{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المريدية والطريق المولوي",
     "markdown": "انتسب نشاطي أول أمره إلى الطريقة المولوية مريدًا للشيخ آغا زاده محمد دده، أولًا في غاليبولي ثم في بشيكتاش بإسطنبول.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} ويذكر مدخل الموسوعة، نقلاً عن صاقب دده، أنه استفاد كثيرًا من شيخه شيخ خانقاه غاليبولي المولوية.{cite:dia-nesati} وبعد وفاة شيخه توجّه إلى قونية في الأناضول الوسطى فخدم زمنًا عند ضريح جلال الدين محمد الرومي مؤسس الطريقة المولوية.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} ثم عاد نحو سنة 1670 إلى أدرنة، وعُيّن سنة 1081هـ/1670 في مشيخة خانقاه المرادية المولوية فيها خلفًا لعثمان دده، ورمّم الخانقاه في مدته.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الشعر والمؤلفات",
     "markdown": "لم يكن نشاطي مكثرًا كغيره من شعراء العثمانيين، لكنه يُعدّ مع ذلك من أئمة فن الغزل.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} وتأثر تأثرًا شديدًا بالشاعر الفارسي عرفي الشيرازي وأعجب به إعجابًا كبيرًا، فكتب عنه رسالته «شرح مشكلات عرفي» في نحو عشرين صفحة تُظهر تمكّنه من الفارسية وإعجابه به.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} ويُرى في قصائده أثر نفعي، وقد مدح بقصائده السلاطين مراد الرابع وإبراهيم ومحمد الرابع ورجال دولة مثل كوبرولي محمد باشا وكوبرولي زاده فاضل أحمد باشا.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} ومن أعماله ديوانه الذي نشره نزهت أرغون سنة 1933، و«حلية الأنبياء» و«شهر أنكيز أدرنة» و«شرح مشكلات عرفي» و«قواعد درّية» و«تحفة العشاق».{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} ويروي معاصره سيد محمد رضا، الذي أتمّ تذكرته في حياة نشاطي، أنه كان يتبع نفعي وأن أشعاره كانت سلسة مبهجة.{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
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     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "بقي في مشيخة أدرنة نحو أربع سنوات وتوفي وهو في منصبه سنة 1674، ودُفن في صحن جامع المرادية، في حظيرة الخانقاه.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati} وقد نظّم شعراء كثيرون، نابي فيهم، أبيات تاريخ لوفاته، ونُقشت أبيات عمه جي زاده رشدي محمد أفندي على شاهد قبره.{cite:dia-nesati} ويؤرّخ مدخل الموسوعة وفاته بسنة 1085هـ/1674.{cite:dia-nesati}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ahmed, known by the pen name Neşâtî, was an Ottoman divan poet of Edirne and a shaykh of the Mevlevi Order, who died in 1674.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati} The majority of sources give his real name as Ahmed, though one source claims it was Süleyman, and the TDV entry notes that some call him Nişancı Ahmed Dede or Neşâtî Süleyman Dede.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati} He is considered among the masters of the gazel and a pioneer of the \"Indian style\", sebk-i hindî, of Ottoman poetry.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} His faith is recorded as sufi on the attestation of three independent texts, which name him a disciple of the Mevlevi shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede and later shaykh of the Muradiyye Mevlevihane at Edirne.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati}"
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     "heading": "Birth and name",
     "markdown": "He was born in Edirne in the region of Thrace.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} It is not known exactly when he was born, though it is speculated that it was around the year 1600, on the evidence of a poem commemorating the winter of 1621–22, in which the Bosphorus at Istanbul was covered with ice.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} The TDV entry says only that he was born at the beginning of the seventeenth century, of a noble family, and learned various sciences in his youth.{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
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     "heading": "Discipleship and the Mevlevi path",
     "markdown": "Neşâtî first became affiliated with the Mevlevi order as a disciple of the shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede, first at Gelibolu in Thrace and then at Beşiktaş in Istanbul.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} The TDV entry, on Sâkıb Dede's information, says he profited greatly from his shaykh, the postnişin of the Gelibolu Mevlevîhâne.{cite:dia-nesati} After Ağazâde Mehmed Dede's death, Neşâtî went to Konya in central Anatolia, where he served for a time at the tomb of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, the founder of the Mevlevi order.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} He finally returned, around the year 1670, to Edirne, appointed in 1081/1670 to the shaykhdom of the Murâdiyye Mevlevîhâne there, left vacant by Osman Dede, and he repaired the tekke during his tenure.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
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     "heading": "Poetry and works",
     "markdown": "Neşâtî was not as prolific as many other Ottoman poets, but is nonetheless considered among the masters of the gazel form.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} He was strongly influenced by, and a great admirer of, the Persian poet Urfî of Shiraz, about whom he wrote a treatise, the Şerh-i Müşkilât-i Urfî, the \"Explanation of the Difficulties of Urfî\", a work of some twenty pages that shows both his command of Persian and his admiration.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} In his qasidas the influence of Nef'i is seen, and he addressed qasidas to sultans Murad IV, Ibrahim and Mehmed IV and to statesmen such as Köprülü Mehmed Pasha and Köprülüzâde Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} His works are his Divan, published in 1933 by Nüzhet Ergun, the Hilye-i Enbiyâ, the Edirne Şehr-engîzi, the Şerh-i Müşkilât-i Urfî, the Kavâid-i Deriyye and the Tuhvetü'l-Uşşak.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} His contemporary Seyyid Mehmed Rızâ, who completed his tezkire while Neşâtî lived, reports that he followed Nef'i and that his poems were fluent and joyful.{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
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     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He held the Edirne shaykhdom for about four years and died in office in 1674, and was buried in the courtyard of the Murâdiyye Mosque, in the Mevlevihane's hazire.{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati} Many poets, Nâbî among them, composed chronograms on his death, and the lines of Ammecizâde Rüşdü Mehmed Efendi were inscribed on his gravestone.{cite:dia-nesati} The TDV entry pairs his death as 1085/1674.{cite:dia-nesati}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "احمد، اپنے قلمی نام نشاطی سے مشہور، ادرنہ کے عثمانی دیوان شاعر اور مولوی شیخ تھے، وفات 1674ء میں ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati} اکثر مصادر ان کا اصل نام احمد بتاتے ہیں، ایک ماخذ سلیمان کا دعویٰ کرتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} وہ غزل کے استاد اور عثمانی شاعری کے «سبکِ ہندی» کے بانیوں میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} تین آزاد متنوں کی شہادت پر — جو انہیں شیخ آغا زادہ محمد ددے کا مرید اور بعد میں ادرنہ کی مرادیہ مولوی خانقاہ کا شیخ بتاتے ہیں — ان کا مذہب صوفی درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati}"
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     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "ادرنہ میں پیدا ہوئے؛ سالِ پیدائش معلوم نہیں، 1621–22ء کے اس موسمِ سرما کی نظم کی بنیاد پر تقریباً 1600ء قیاس کیا جاتا ہے جب باسفورس جم گیا تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en} غالیبولی اور پھر بشکتاش میں شیخ آغا زادہ محمد ددے کے مرید ہوئے، شیخ کی وفات کے بعد قونیہ میں جلال الدین رومی کے مزار پر خدمت کی، اور تقریباً 1670ء میں ادرنہ واپس آ کر مرادیہ مولوی خانقاہ کے شیخ بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-en}{cite:dia-nesati}"
    },
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     "heading": "تصانیف اور وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کی مشہور تصانیف میں دیوان، «حلیۂ انبیاء»، «شہر انگیزِ ادرنہ» اور اپنے فارسی استاد عرفی شیرازی پر «شرح مشکلاتِ عرفی» شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr} تقریباً چار سال مشیخت پر رہے اور 1674ء میں عہدے پر ہی وفات پائی؛ مرادیہ مسجد کے احاطے میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-nesati-tr}{cite:dia-nesati} TDV مدخل ان کی وفات 1085ھ/1674ء درج کرتا ہے۔{cite:dia-nesati}"
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