Ahmed Nedîm

Ahmed, known as Nedîm, was born around 1681 in Istanbul, the son of a judge according to Britannica, in a family of scholars and officials. Trained in the religious sciences, Arabic and Persian, he taught in the madrasas of Istanbul, up to the Sahn-ı Seman from 1721 to 1730, and sat as a judge in 1725. A protégé of the grand vizier Nevşehirli Damad İbrâhim Paşa, who appointed him librarian according to Britannica, he won the favour of Sultan Ahmed III. He died in 1730 in his house in Beşiktaş, during the Patrona Halil revolt; tradition has him falling from a roof.

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• PoetryDîvânAhmed Nedîm · 1720not translated into EnglishLiterature