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Mihri Hatun (also known as Lady Mihri and Mihri Khatun, Ottoman Turkish: مهری خاتون; "sun/light"; c.1460 - c.1506), was an Ottoman poet. She was the daughter of a kadi (an Ottoman judge) and according to sources she spent most of her life in and near Amasya, in Anatolia.[1] Documentation places her as a member of the literary circle of Şehzade Ahmed, the son of Sultan Bayezid II.[2] She is referred to as the "Sappho of the Ottomans".[3]
- ^ Havlioglu, 2
- ^ Lewis, 207
- ^ John Freely (2009), The Grand Turk : Sultan Mehmet II - conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of two seas, London: I.B. Tauris, ISBN 9780857719287