Khayali

K̲h̲ayālī Mehmed Bey (died at Edirne in 1556), nicknamed Bekār Memi ("Memi the Bachelor"), was an Ottoman poet born in Yenice-i Vardar (modern Giannitsa, Greece). He was a bitter enemy of poet Yahya Bey.^[1]

References

1. Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, Bernard Lewis, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Charles Pellat, Joseph Schacht (1998), The Encyclopaedia of Islam 10, Brill, p. 352, OCLC 490480645

• İz, Fahir (1997). "K̲h̲ayālī". The Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume IV: Ira–Kha. Leiden and New York: BRILL. p. 1137. ISBN 90-04-05745-5.