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]
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- ↑ Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb; Bernard Lewis; Johannes Hendrik Kramers; Charles Pellat; Joseph Schacht (1998), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 10, Brill, p. 352, OCLC 490480645
- İz, Fahir (1960–2005). "K̲h̲ayālī". Encyclopaedia of Islam (12 vols.) (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 1137.
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