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'''Yusuf Nâbi''', (Osmanlı Türkçesi: نابی) '''Nabî''', d. 1641 - 1712 [[Şanlıurfa|Urfa]] - ö. [[İstanbul]]), [[Kürt]] Kökenli<ref>Walter G. Andrews as quoted ''in'' Orga, Atesh (ed.) (2007) "Istanbul: Portrait of a City" ''Istanbul: A Collection of the Poetry of Place'' Eland, London, p. 39, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-9550105-9-0</nowiki>; see Andrews, Walter G. (1997) ''Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology'' University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas,</ref><ref name="timeturk.com">http://www.timeturk.com/tr/2013/05/17/kemalist-algi-tasavuf-muzigi-ve-kurtler.html</ref><ref>E.G. Ambros: ''Nābī.'' In: ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition.'' Band 7, Brill, Leiden/New York 1993, S. 839 f., hier: 839.</ref> [[Divan(edebiyat)|Dîvân edebiyatı]] [[şâir]]i.<ref name="timeturk.com"/><ref>{{Web kaynağı | url = http://eyayinlar.mkutup.gov.tr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/YusufNabi | başlık = Yusuf Nabi | yayıncı = Milli Kütüphane Başkanlığı | erişimtarihi = 16 Ekim 2015 | arşivurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20160315083015/http://eyayinlar.mkutup.gov.tr/cgi-bin/WebObjects/YusufNabi | arşivtarihi = 15 Mart 2016}}</ref>
