{ "id": "person/yusuf-nabi", "class": "person", "slug": "yusuf-nabi", "label": { "ar": "يوسف نابي", "en": "Yusuf Nabi", "ur": "یوسف نبی" }, "summary": { "ar": "يوسف نابي (1642 – 13 نيسان 1712) شاعر ديوان عثماني وُلد في أورفة، انتقل إلى إسطنبول في الرابعة والعشرين فذاع صيته، وصحب الصدر الأعظم مصطفى باشا ولازمه في حملة لهستان سنة 1672 فكتب «فتحنامه كمانيچه». حجّ سنة 1679 ودوّن رحلته في «تحفة الحرمين»، ثم أقام نحو 25 سنة في حلب حيث نظم «خيرية» سنة 1701 لابنه أبي الخير، وهو ديوان نصائح صار أشهر أعماله. عاد إلى إسطنبول مع بلطجي محمد باشا وتولّى أمانة دار الضرب والمقابلة، ومات فيها ودُفن في مقبرة قرجه أحمد بأسكدار.", "en": "Yusuf Nabi (1642 – 13 April 1712) was an Ottoman Divan poet born at Urfa who came to Istanbul at twenty-four and made his name, joined Sultan Mehmed IV's court circles and the 1672 Polish campaign, of which he wrote the Fetihname-i Kamaniçe. He made the Hajj in 1679 and recorded it in the Tuhfetü'l-Harameyn, then lived some twenty-five years in Aleppo, where in 1701 he composed the Hayriyye, a book of counsel for his son Ebulhayr that became his most famous work. He returned to Istanbul with Baltacı Mehmed Pasha, held the mint superintendency and the chief registrarship, died there and was buried in Karacaahmet cemetery in Üsküdar.", "ur": "یوسف نبی (1642ء – 13 اپریل 1712ء) عثمانی دیوان شاعر تھے، اورفہ میں پیدا ہوئے، چوبیس سال کی عمر میں استنبول آئے اور نام پایا، 1672ء کی پولینڈ مہم میں شریک ہو کر «فتح نامۂ کمانیچہ» لکھی۔ 1679ء میں حج کیا اور سفرنامہ «تحفۃ الحرمین» لکھا، پھر تقریباً 25 سال حلب میں رہے جہاں 1701ء میں اپنے بیٹے ابوالخیر کے لیے نصائح کی کتاب «خیریہ» نظم کی، جو ان کی مشہور ترین تصنیف بنی۔ بلتاجی محمد پاشا کے ساتھ استنبول واپس آئے، دارالضرب کی امانت اور باش مقالہ جی کا عہدہ پایا، وہیں وفات پائی اور اسکدار کے قراجہ احمد قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "anatolia-balkans", "levant-iraq" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1642.0014784697837, "latest": 1712.2835513391472 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1642", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "year", "status": "historical", "note": "Born at Urfa in 1642, as the English, Turkish and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree; the year spans 1051–1052 AH, so no Hijri year is built.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur", "source/wikidata-yusuf-nabi" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1712-04-13", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "debated", "hijri": "1124", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Istanbul. The Turkish article's lead gives 13 April 1712 and its body 12/13 April; the English and Urdu stubs give 10 April 1712, which Wikidata also carries as one of two statements (the other being 13 April); the Turkish reading is built, the rivals preserved here. The day falls cleanly in 1124 AH, built as derived. The English and Urdu stubs add that he died of wounds from a wild honey badger attack; the Turkish article and the TEİS entry it rests on give no such cause, and the claim is preserved here without endorsement.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur", "source/wikidata-yusuf-nabi" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Yusuf Nabi", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "Nâbî", "kind": "pen" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "poet", "writer" ], "born": { "edtf": "1642", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "year", "status": "historical", "note": "Born at Urfa in 1642, as the English, Turkish and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree; the year spans 1051–1052 AH, so no Hijri year is built.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur", "source/wikidata-yusuf-nabi" ] }, "died": { "edtf": "1712-04-13", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "debated", "hijri": "1124", "derived": true, "note": "Died at Istanbul. The Turkish article's lead gives 13 April 1712 and its body 12/13 April; the English and Urdu stubs give 10 April 1712, which Wikidata also carries as one of two statements (the other being 13 April); the Turkish reading is built, the rivals preserved here. The day falls cleanly in 1124 AH, built as derived. The English and Urdu stubs add that he died of wounds from a wild honey badger attack; the Turkish article and the TEİS entry it rests on give no such cause, and the claim is preserved here without endorsement.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur", "source/wikidata-yusuf-nabi" ] }, "faith": [ { "value": "unknown", "basis": "unknown", "note": "No text read names a school for the man himself. His documented practice is stated in full: he performed the Hajj in 1679 and wrote an account of the journey, the Tuhfetü'l-Harameyn, served as a court poet under Mehmed IV and held Ottoman state office — practice and office without a named school, which under the founder's rule is recorded as unknown. Wikidata carries no religion statement for him.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en" ] } ], "external_ids": { "wikidata": "Q2351863" }, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur", "source/wikidata-yusuf-nabi" ], "provenance": { "layer": "own-research", "source": "Turkish Wikipedia «Nâbî» (revision 38078749 of 28 September 2026, resting on the TEİS entry by Abdulkadir Erkal), English Wikipedia (revision 1190168087 of 16 December 2023, a short stub), Urdu Wikipedia (revision 6072697 of 19 February 2024, a rendering of the English stub) and Wikidata Q2351863 (item revision 2551035938 of 29 September 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 and Urdu articles agreeing. Existence checked against origin/main before building — no record holds this man under nabi, yusuf-nabi or any name fragment, and no Arabic or Persian article exists. The later queue row 'Mustafa Nâbî — 1642–1712' (line 1843) gives the same years and is, as its own annotation suspects, the same man duplicated: his name in every source is Yusuf, and this record covers the row. place/al-ruha (Urfa) and place/istanbul exist on main.", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "modern-figures-wave-173m" }, "status": { "review": "published", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "يوسف نابي (1642 – 13 نيسان 1712) شاعر ديوان عثماني وُلد في أورفة، وهو صاحب «خيرية»، كتاب النصائح الذي نظمه لابنه فصار أشهر أعماله.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} لا يذكر أي نصّ قرأناه مذهبًا له بشخصه، وحجّه وكتابه في رحلة الحج وسائر عمله الموثّق مذكور في سجله بلا مذهب مسمّى، فيُسجَّل مذهبه مجهولًا." }, { "heading": "أورفة وإسطنبول وحلب", "markdown": "وُلد نابي سنة 1642 في أورفة ونشأ في فقر وشظف، وغادرها في الرابعة والعشرين إلى إسطنبول فواصل تعليمه وبدأت قصائده تُعرَف.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} صحب السلطان محمد الرابع في انتقاله إلى بلاط أدرنة وشارك في حملة لهستان سنة 1672 فنظم «فتحنامه كمانيچه» في فتح القلعة، وهو أول أعماله المنفردة.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} وفي سنة 1679 ذهب إلى الحج وفي عودته صار كتخدا لمصطفى باشا، ودوّن رحلته في «تحفة الحرمين».{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} ثم أقام نحو 25 سنة في حلب عاش فيها برعاية الدولة حياة مريحة وكتب أكثر أعماله، وفيها نظم سنة 1701 «خيرية» لابنه المولود في حلب أبي الخير، وظلّ من حلب يتتبّع أخبار العاصمة فهنّأ مصطفى الثاني بقصيدة جلوس بينما سكت عن جلوس سليمان الثاني وأحمد الثاني.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en}" }, { "heading": "العودة والوفاة", "markdown": "ولما صار بلطجي محمد باشا صدرًا أعظم أعاد نابي معه إلى إسطنبول، فتولّى أمانة دار الضرب ثم رئاسة المقابلة.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} وكان قد شاخ، فمات في إسطنبول بعد عودته بسنتين: يذكر متن المقالة التركية 13 نيسان 1712 ونصّها 12/13 نيسان، بينما يذكر المقالان الإنجليزي والأردي 10 نيسان 1712، وكلتا القراءتين محفوظتان في سجله؛ أما قصة الإنجليزية والأردية أنه مات متأثرًا بهجوم غرير العسل بري عليه فلا نظير لها في المقالة التركية ولا في مدخل موسوعة الأسماء التركية (TEİS) الذي تستند إليه، وهي محفوظة في سجله من غير اعتماد.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur} ودُفن في مقبرة قرجه أحمد بأسكدار، ورمّم قبره السلطانان محمود الثاني وعبد الحميد الثاني.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" }, { "heading": "الشعر والأعمال", "markdown": "عاش نابي في عصر انحطاط الدولة وشهد فساد الإدارة والمجتمع، فدفعه ذلك إلى الشعر التعليمي الناقد؛ وكان يرى أن الشعر ينبغي أن يكون في صلب الحياة ومشكلاتها لا معزولًا عن الإنسان، فجاءت لغته سهلة قليلة الزخرف محشوة بالأمثال الشعبية.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} ومن بيت مشهور له يشرح لقبه: «نَا» و«بِي» بالفارسية بمعنى «لا» و«بدون»، فيقول إنه لا صبر عنده ولا وفاء عند المحبوب، فماذا يخرج من عدمين.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} ومن أعماله غير ما تقدّم: «خير آباد» و«سورنامه» وديوانه، وكان له أيضًا صوت جميل وإلمام بالموسيقى حتى نُسبت إليه ألحان باسم «سيد نوح».{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/yusuf-nabi", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-11-01" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Yusuf Nabi (1642 – 13 April 1712) was an Ottoman Divan poet born at Urfa, author of the Hayriyye, the book of counsel he composed for his son and his most famous work.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} No text read names a school for the man himself; his Hajj, his book of the Hajj journey and his documented career are stated in his record without a named school, and his faith is recorded as unknown." }, { "heading": "Urfa, Istanbul, Aleppo", "markdown": "Nabi was born in 1642 at Urfa and grew up in poverty; at twenty-four he left for Istanbul, continued his education and began to be known for his poems.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} He accompanied Sultan Mehmed IV to the Edirne court and joined the sultan's hunts, and in 1672 he was on the Polish campaign and wrote the Fetihname-i Kamaniçe on the fall of Kamianets, his first independent work.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} In 1679 he went on the Hajj, became steward to Mustafa Pasha on his return, and wrote the Tuhfetü'l-Harameyn, his account of the journey.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} He then lived some twenty-five years in Aleppo, comfortably supported by the state, writing most of his works there; in 1701 he composed the Hayriyye in Aleppo for his son Ebulhayr, who was born there, and from Aleppo he followed the capital's news closely, congratulating Mustafa II on his accession with a cülus ode while staying silent at the accessions of Suleyman II and Ahmed II.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en}" }, { "heading": "Return and death", "markdown": "When Baltacı Mehmed Pasha became grand vizier he took Nabi back to Istanbul, where Nabi was appointed superintendent of the mint and then chief registrar.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} He was by then an old man, and he died at Istanbul two years after his return: the Turkish article's lead gives 13 April 1712 and its body 12/13 April, while the English and Urdu stubs give 10 April 1712 — both readings preserved in his record. The English and Urdu claim that he died of wounds from a wild honey badger attack has no counterpart in the Turkish article or in the TEİS entry behind it, and is preserved in his record without endorsement.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur} He was buried in Karacaahmet cemetery in Üsküdar, and Sultans Mahmud II and Abdulhamid II had his tomb repaired.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" }, { "heading": "Poetry and works", "markdown": "Nabi lived through the empire's stagnation and witnessed corruption in administration and society, which turned him to didactic, critical poetry; he held that poetry should stand inside life and its problems rather than apart from human concerns, and his language is plain and unadorned, filled with popular sayings.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} A famous couplet plays on his pen name: na and bi are Persian for \"without\" — he has no patience, the beloved no fidelity, so what can come of two nothings.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} Besides the works already named he left the Hayrabad, the Surname and his Divan, and he is also remembered for a beautiful voice and compositions under the name Seyyid Nuh.{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/yusuf-nabi", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-11-01" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "یوسف نبی (1642ء – 13 اپریل 1712ء) عثمانی دیوان شاعر تھے، اورفہ میں پیدا ہوئے، اور ان کی مشہور ترین تصنیف «خیریہ» ہے، نصائح کی وہ کتاب جو انہوں نے اپنے بیٹے کے لیے نظم کی۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} کسی پڑھے گئے متن میں ان کے اپنے مذہب کا نام نہیں آیا؛ حج، سفرنامۂ حج اور ان کی دستاویزی زندگی ریکارڈ میں بغیر کسی مسلک کے درج ہے، اس لیے مذہب نامعلوم رکھا گیا ہے۔" }, { "heading": "زندگی", "markdown": "غربت میں پرورش پا کر نبی 24 سال کی عمر میں استنبول گئے اور شاعری سے معروف ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr} 1672ء میں سلطان محمد رابع کی پولینڈ مہم میں شریک ہو کر «فتح نامۂ کمانیچہ» لکھا، 1679ء میں حج کیا اور سفرنامہ «تحفۃ الحرمین» لکھا، پھر تقریباً 25 سال حلب میں رہے جہاں 1701ء میں بیٹے ابوالخیر کے لیے «خیریہ» نظم کی اور زیادہ تر تصانیف وہیں لکھیں۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} بلتاجی محمد پاشا کے صدرِ اعظم بننے پر ان کے ساتھ استنبول واپس آئے، دارالضرب کے امین اور باش مقالہ جی ہوئے، اور دو سال بعد وہیں وفات پائی — ترکی مضمون میں وفات 13 اپریل 1712ء ہے جبکہ انگریزی و اردو مضامین 10 اپریل لکھتے ہیں، دونوں ریکارڈ میں محفوظ ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en} اسکدار کے قراجہ احمد قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" }, { "heading": "شاعری", "markdown": "نبی نے سلطنت کے زوال اور انتظامی و سماجی بگاڑ کو دیکھ کر تعلیمی و تنقیدی شاعری اختیار کی؛ ان کی زبان سادہ، محاوروں سے بھرپور اور زندگی سے جُڑی ہوئی ہے۔ دیگر تصانیف میں «خیر آباد»، «سورنامہ» اور ان کا دیوان شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/yusuf-nabi", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-11-01" } }, "degree": 4, "contemporaries": [ "person/asad-khan", "person/mulla-jiwan", "person/erekle-i", "person/moulay-ismail", "person/aurangzeb-mughal", "person/pakubuwono-i", "person/subhan-quli-khan", "person/zeb-un-nissa", "person/muneccimbasi-ahmed-dede", "person/bahadur-nizam-shah", "person/muhammad-al-mahdi-al-fasi", "person/qazi-said-qumi" ], "updated": "2026-11-01", "connections": [ { "to": "place/al-ruha", "type": "born_in", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-ur" ] }, { "to": "place/istanbul", "type": "died_in", "inverse": false, "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-tr", "source/wikipedia-yusuf-nabi-en" ] } ], "related": [ "building/arap-cami-istanbul", "building/atik-ali-pasha-mosque", "building/eski-imaret-mosque", "building/eyup-sultan-mosque", "building/fenari-isa-mosque", "building/gul-mosque-istanbul", "building/hagia-sophia", "building/hirami-ahmed-pasha-mosque" ], "license": { "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "data": "CC0 1.0" } }