Sünbülzade Vehbi

Mehmed Sünbülzâde Vehbî (* 1718 ? In Maraş ; † April 28, 1809 in Istanbul ) was an Ottoman poet. He was born in Maraş in what was then the province of Aleppo . He supposedly got his poet name from Seyyid Vehbi , with whom his father worked as an assistant.

In 1775 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Persia by Abdülhamid I because of his good knowledge of Persian . Sünbülzade Vehbi was very impressed by the stay. In his poems he refers to his stay in Persia several times. On his return he was sentenced to death due to a dispute with the governor of Baghdad , Ömer Pasha, and had to go into hiding until Ömer Pasha himself fell out of favor. Vehbi wrote a Kaside in which he described his stay in Persia and was pardoned.

This was followed by terms of office as Qādī u. a. in Rumelia and Rhodes . He made friends with the poet Sürûrî , but the two of them abused each other in hearty poems for a long time.

Sünbülzâde Vehbî, who was over 90 years old, spent his last years in Istanbul.

One of his most famous works is Şevk-engîz , which is about a dispute between a pederast and a womanizer.

His works Nuhbe and Tuhfe are two textbooks for Arabic and Persian in rhyming language.

Other works

• Nuhbe-i Vehbi
• Lutfiyye-i Vehbî
• Tuhfe-i Vehbî

literature

• Andrews, Walter G .: Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Expanded Edition , University of Washington Press, 2006, ISBN 0-295-98595-X , page 260f
• EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 , BRILL, ISBN 9004097961 , page 553f
• Selim Sırrı Kuru: SÜNBÜLZÂDE VEHBÎ. In: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , Vol. 38, pp. 140–141 (Turkish)