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, Meḥmed b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd Allāh, Ottoman poet who lived in the second half of the 9th/15th century and the first decades of the following one, d. 931/1524. Born at Prizren [ q.v.] near Üsküb [ q.v.] (Skoplje), he became secretary to Mīk̲h̲āl-Og̲h̲lu [ q.v.] ʿAlī Beg, ¶ and after the latter’s death in 913/1507, secretary to Mīk̲h̲āl-Og̲h̲lu Meḥmed Beg up to 918/1512. From a waḳfiyye of his dated 919/1513, it appears that Sultan Selīm I granted him the farm of Grajdanik with a temlīk-nāme , and that he left the service of Meḥmed Beg. He settled down in Prizren and established a mesd̲j̲id …

, Ottoman poet and biographer of poets of the 10th/16th century, b. 874/1470-1 and died 955/1548-9. 1. Life. His original name is unknown, and the historian ʿĀlī dubbed him “ʿAbd Allāh” and considered him as stemming from the Dews̲h̲irme [ q.v.]. He was certainly from Edirnc and a close associate of the poet Ned̲j̲ātī Bey (d. 914/1508-9 [ q.v.]), also from that town. Already when Bāyezīd’s son Maḥmūd (d. 913/1507) was appointed governor of Manisa, Sehī was the companion of Ned̲j̲ātī and several other poets in the Prince’s entourage (see Laṭīfī, Ted̲h̲kire , Istanb…

(a.), an Arabic term attested at a very early stage, in the ancient inscriptions of Arabia, with the meaning of message or of mission (G. Lankester Harding, An index and concordance of pre-Islamic names and inscriptions, Toronto 1971, 277). In fact, risāla has many meanings; it has signified message, missive, letter, epistle and monograph; from the 5th/11th century onwards it could also be a synonym of maḳāma (see below, section on Risāla and maḳāma). The synonyms recorded are kitāb [ q.v.], k̲h̲iṭāb (for Ps.-Ibn al-Mudabbir in the 3rd/9th century, risāla and k̲h̲iṭāb were synonyms, Ṣafw…