Melihi (Melīḥī, fl. ninth/fifteenth century) was a famous divan poet of the reign of Sultan Mehmed (Meḥmed) II (r. 848–50/1444–6 and 855–86/1451–81). The date of his birth is unknown. Tezkire (tedhkire, collections of biographies of poets) writers such as Latifi (Laṭīfī, d. 990/1582), Hasan (Ḥasan) Çelebi (d.1012/1604), Riyazi (Riyāḍī, d. 1054/1644), and Mustafa Ali (Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī, d. 1008/1600) say that Melihi was from Tokat, in north-central Anatolia; Âşık (ʿĀşıq) Çelebi (d. 979/1572), on the other hand, indicates that he w…