Ganizade Nadiri

Ganizade Nadiri was an Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and calligrapher from Istanbul. His penname was Nadiri. His father Abdülgani was an author, a teacher and judge, and his brother Abdülcebbar was also a poet, his penname being Celili.
Ganizade first worked as a mülazim and a teacher in Istanbul from 1591 to 1601. He became a judge from 1601, serving as judge of Thessaloniki, Cairo, Edirne, Istanbul, and Galata until 1609. He was then military judge of Anatolia and then Rumelia from 1612 to 1624. He was close to the court throughout his career.
Ganizade mainly created two illustrated manuscripts: the Diwan-i Nadiri circa 1605, and the Şehnāme-i Nādirī circa 1620. The Divan contains thirty-seven eulogies of famous Ottoman potentates, as well as eulogies to the sultans Murad III, Mehmed III, Ahmed I, Mustafa I and Osman II.