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Ismail Haqqi Bursevi

| death_place = Bursa, Ottoman Empire | genre = Ottoman classical music, Turkish makam | occupation = Lyrics author, composer | instruments = }}

İsmail Hakkı Bursevî (Turkish: Bursalı İsmail Hakkı, , Persian: Esmā’īl Ḥaqqī Borsavī) was a 17th-century Ottoman Turkish Muslim scholar, a Jelveti Sufi author on mystical experience and the esoteric interpretation of the Quran; also a poet and musical composer. İsmail Hakkı Bursevî influenced many parts the Ottoman Empire but primarily Turkey. To this day he is revered as one of the ''Büyükler'', the great saints of Anatolia.

He is regarded as an eminent literary figure in the Turkish language, having authored more than a hundred works. Translations of some of his works are now available for the English-speaking world. Provided by Wikipedia