Zekeriyazade Yahya

Zekeriyâ-zâde Yahyâ Efendi (* 1552 in Ankara ; † 1644 ) was an Ottoman theologian, lawyer and poet.

Life

He was the eldest son of Scheichülislam Bayram-Zade Zekeriya and therefore received a solid theological training.

In his early thirties he became a teacher at the Atik Ali Paşa Medrese in Istanbul . Later he also taught at the Haseki Sultan Medrese in Istanbul. In 1595 he was appointed Qādī in Aleppo . This was followed by terms of office as Kadi, among others in Bursa and Edirne . In 1603 he became a kadi in Istanbul and then an army judge ( Kazasker ).

In 1622 he was first appointed to Sheikhul Islam. This term of office only lasted about a year after Yahya, known for his honesty, reprimanded Grand Vizier Kemankeş Ali Pascha for his tolerance of the corruption widespread in the allocation of offices. His second term of office lasted from 1625 to 1632, the third from 1633 to 1644. Shortly before his death, he was dismissed by Sultan Ibrahim .

He was one of the most important poets of the first half of the 17th century.

literature

• Walter G. Andrews: Ottoman Lyric Poetry. An Anthology , Expanded Edition, University of Washington Press, 2006, ISBN 0-295-98595-X , pp. 245f.
• Klaus Kreiser , Christoph K. Neumann: A Little History of Turkey , Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010540-4 , p. 238.