Fitnat Hanım

Zübeyde
Born	Istanbul, Turkey
Died	1780 İstanbul
Pen name	Fitnat
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Ottoman Turkish

Fitnat Hanım (died in 1780) was the pen name of Ottoman Turkish woman poet Zübeyde, who lived in the 18th century. Her birth date is not known. But she was probably younger than her brother, who was born in 1723/4.^[1]

She is known by her pseudonym Fitnat, where "Hanım" is the Turkish word "lady". Her father was Ebu İshakzade Mehmet Esad Efendi, who was a Sheik ul-Islam, highest religious authority. Her husband was Derviş Mehmet Efendi, a kazasker (judge) of Rumeli. She was able to be admitted to the literary circles of the era, and she was known to read poems to Koca Ragıp Pasha, the grand vizier.^[2] Some of her poems were translated to Western languages in the 19th century.^[1] Muallim Naci, a well known poet of the 19th century calls her "queen of the poets".^[3]

References

1. Antoloji (Turkish)
2. Turkish language and literature page (Turkish)
3. Turkish history page (Turkish)