Fehmî (1564–1596),[1] also referred as Kınalızâde Mehmet Fehmi, Kınalızâde Fehmi Çelebi[1] or Molla Mohammed (Mehmet) Fehmi[2] was an Ottoman diwan poet.

A scion of the prominent Kınalızâde family from Isparta in Anatolia,[3] Fehmî was born in Damascus,[2] today's Syria, back then part of the Damascus Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, where his father was working as a kadı (judge).[4] He was the son of the well-known scholar Ali Çelebi,[5] and brother of the other poet Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi.[5]

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  1. ^ a b TUBE (in Turkish), Harvard University Print. Office, 2002, p. 20, sıl adı Mehmed olan Kınalızâde Fehmî Çelebi yaşamıştır (972/1 564-5-§evvâl 1004/Haziran 1596).
  2. ^ a b Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1812), "2", Geschichte der Litteratur von ihren Anfang bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, vol. 3, Göttingen, p. 1204, OCLC 666188186
  3. ^ H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KINALIZADE FAMILY
  4. ^ M. Th. Houtsma, ed. (1987), E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, vol. IV, Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, p. 1017, ISBN 9789004084933, OCLC 630745392
  5. ^ a b Cornell H. Fleischer (1986), Bureaucrat and intellectual in the Ottoman Empire : the historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600), Princeton studies on the Near East., Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 43–44, ISBN 9780691054643, OCLC 13011359