Âşık Pasha

Died in 1332

Âşık Paşa, whose name was Ali, was born in 1272 in Kırşehir. A grandson of Baba İlyas, a sheikh from Khorasan, he had as his first teacher his father, Muhlis Paşa. He served for a time as vizier to the governor of Anatolia, then went to Egypt, according to the Diyanet. The Turkish Ministry of Culture credits him with a knowledge of Armenian, Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, and makes the historian Âşıkpaşazâde his great-grandson. He died in Kırşehir on 3 November 1332, and his tomb, on a hill in the town, remains a place of visit.

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PoetryGaribnâmeÂşık Pasha · 1330not translated into EnglishLiterature