…of whom was the şeyhülislâm Bahayî Efendi. Like his predecessor Yahya Efendi, he was the scion of an illustrious ulema family. Bahayî Efendi’s poetry is a continuation of Bâkî’s style as it was developed by Yahya Efendi, and, as such, it furnishes the prime example of the neoconservative tendencies of…
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