Şeyh Galib

Şeyh Galib was born in 1757 in Istanbul; his father, Mustafa Reşid Efendi, belonged to the Mevlevi order. He learned Persian from poets of the order, among them Neş'et, who gave him the name Esad; he later took that of Galib, other poets already signing Esad. Having entered a retreat at the Konya lodge, he came back before its end and completed his novitiate in Istanbul. Appointed sheikh of the Mevlevi lodge of Galata in 1791, he won the friendship of Sultan Selim III, who had the house restored. He died in Istanbul in early January 1799 and lies at Galata.

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