Fevzi Mostari
{{Short description|Ottoman-Bosnian writer (c. 1675–1747)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Fevzi Mostari
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| birth_date = {{circa|1675}}
| birth_place = Blagaj (near Mostar), Sanjak of Herzegovina, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
| death_date = 1747
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| nationality =
| occupation = Writer
| notablework = Bulbulistan
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Fevzi Mostari (also spelled Fawzi or Fowzi, and also known as Fevzi Mostarac; {{circa|1675}}–1747) was a Bosnian writer, who authored the Persian work Bulbulistan ("A Place of Nightingales"; also spelled Bolbolestān) in 1739. Written in imitation of the Golestan of Saadi Shirazi (died 1291/2), it is the only extant prose work in Persian by a writer of Bosnian origin. It is viewed as an important artifact of the Bosnian literary tradition. He was born in Blagaj, near Mostar.
He became a member of the Mevlevi Order during his time in Constantinople.{{sfn|Algar|1999|pp=571–572}}
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- {{cite journal |last1=Algar |first1=Hamid |author-link1=Hamid Algar|title=PERSIAN LITERATURE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA1 |journal=Journal of Islamic Studies |date=1994 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=254–267|doi=10.1093/jis/5.2.254|jstor=26195619}}
- {{Encyclopaedia Iranica|last=Algar|first=Hamid|title=FEVZİ MOSTĀRĪ|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fevzi-mostari|volume=9|fascicle=6|pages=571–572}}
- {{Encyclopædia Iranica Online|last=Algar|first=Hamid|title=BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bosnia-and-herzegovina|year=2003}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Gačanin |first1=Sabaheta |title=The Persian Literary Tradition in Ottoman Bosnia and Its Environs |journal=Journal of Persianate Studies |date=2022 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=85–120 |doi=10.1163/18747167-bja10027}}
Category:18th-century Persian-language writers
Category:Bosnian Muslims from the Ottoman Empire
Category:18th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
Category:17th-century Mevlevis
Category:17th-century Bosnian people
Category:18th-century Mevlevis
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