Agehi (Ottoman poet and historian)

Agehi, real name Mansur, was an Ottoman poet and historian who died in 985/1577–8. He was born at Yenice-i Vardar (Giannitsa) and worked as mudarris and qadi.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) describes Agehi as a Turkish poet and historian. His career as mudarris and qadi is recorded by his biographers. He was renowned as a poet, although no diwan of his poems seems to have existed; his fame rests on a qasida addressed to a young sailor, composed in the slang of Turkish sailors and full of terms from the nautical lingua franca and the galley terminology, which other poets imitated. His only known historical work, the Tarikh-i Ghazat-i Sigetwar, describes Suleyman's expedition against Szigetvar, but no manuscript of it is known. ¹