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{{Orphan|date=January 2013}}Shaykh al-Islam Baha'i Mehmed Efendi ({{lang-ota|شیخالاسلام بهايي محمد افندي}}) (1595-6{{sfn|Lewis|1986|p=915}}/1601,{{sfn|Eliaçık|2012|p=8}} Istanbul - 3 January 1654) was Ottoman jurist, theologian, poet and scholar. {{sfn|Lewis|1986|p=915}} He was first appointed as Shaykh al-Islam in 1649. Some of his fatwas are written in verse of which 4 of them are available now.{{sfn|Eliaçık|2012|p=8}} His best known ruling was his lawful pronouncing of smoking and ending the prohibitions and repressions of the early 17th century. His body is buried in Fatih mosque. Divan The Divan of Baha'i consists of 6 qasida, 2 masnavi, 4 stanza, 2 history stanza, 40 ghazal and 8 ruba'i.{{sfn|Çentindağ|2011|p=30}} Notes References - {{cite book | last =Çentindağ | first =Yusuf | title =XVII Yüzyıl Türk Edebiyatı | publisher =Anadolu Üniversitesi | year =2011 | location =Anadolu | pages =30–34 | language =Turkish | isbn =978-975-06-1051-6|ref=harv |editor1-first= Yekta|editor1-last= Saraç|editor2-first= Muhsin|editor2-last= Macit}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|last=Lewis|first=B|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam|title=Baha'i Mehmed Efendi | year=1986 | publisher=E. J. BRILL | volume=1 | location=Leiden | isbn=90-04-08114-3 |ref=harv | pages=915}}
- {{cite journal | last =Eliaçık | first =Muhittin | title =Şeyhülislâm Bahâî Mehmed Efendi’nin Manzum Fetvâları | journal =Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi |trans-title=The fatwas of in Verse Which Were Written by Shaykh al-Islam Baha’i Mehmed Efendi | volume = 31 | pages = 1–20 | publisher = Selçuk Üniversitesi | location = Konya | year = 2012 | language = Turkish |ref=harv | issn = 1300-5766}}
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