Hamd Allah Hamdi

Ḥamd Allāh Ḥamdī, was a Turkish poet, born at Göynük near Bolu. He was the youngest of the twelve sons of the famous s̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Ak Shams al-Din, who had succeeded Heci Bayram as the superior of the Bayramiyya. Hamdi lost his father at the age of ten. He had an unhappy childhood, which probably inspired him to write his famous Masnavi Yūsuf ve Zuleyk̲h̲ā.
In the introductory part of his Yūsuf we Züleyk̲h̲ā he relates that his lazy, ignorant and quarrelsome brothers treated him badly and were jealous of him because of the great affection their father Aḳ S̲h̲ams al-Dīn showed him: "Joseph reached the extremity of his misfortunes, there is no end to my suffering". Although he has little to nothing laudatory to say of his brothers, some of them are mentioned in the sources as outstanding ʿulemāʾ.