Garami (Gharāmī, b. 906/1500–1) was a tenth/sixteenth-century Ottoman poet, who recorded his name as Seyyid Mehmed b. Mustafa (Seyyid Meḥmed b. Muṣṭafā) in his divan ( dīvān, collection of poems) (Gharāmī, 155b). Sehi (Sehī) Bey’s biographic anthology Heşt-Behişt notes that Garami was called kadıcık oğlu ( Qāḍīcıq oghlu, “son of the “little kadı”) (İsen, 242), from which it can be inferred that his father was a kadı (judge). Garami was born in Karaferye (today’s Veroia), near Thessaloniki, in Greece. The sources do not provide any information about his date of birth, but in his divan Gar…