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Bursalı Mehmed Tahir (Bursalı Meḥmed Ṭāhir) was a famous Ottoman biographer. He was one of the two sons of Rahime Hanım (Raḥīme Khanım) and the poet Rıfat (Rifʿat) Bey, while his grandfather was Seyyid Mehmed Tahir (Meḥmed Ṭāhir) Paşa. He was thus a member of a distinguished and…

Abdülhalim Memduh (ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Memdūḥ) was an Ottoman literary historian and writer of the “middle generation” (ara nesil) . He was born in Istanbul in 1283/1866 or 1285/1868, to Ali Ragıb (ʿAlī Rāghıb, d. 1307/1890) Bey, who was a kaymakam ( qāʾim-maqām , head offi…