Nevizade Atai (Nevʿīzāde ʿAṭāʾī, 991-1045/1583-1635), or Ataullah b. Yahya b. Pir Ali b. Nasuh (ʿAṭāʾ Allāh b. Yaḥyā b. Pīr ʿAlī b. Naṣūḥ), was an eminent Ottoman poet and writer of the seventeenth century, who carried on Taşköprüzade's (Ṭaşköprüzāde's) work of compiling biographies of the Ottoman ulema (ʿulemāʾ) and Sufis (Ṣūfīs). He was born in Istanbul Şevval (Shawwāl) 991/October1583, where his father, the esteemed poet and scholar Yahya Nevi (Yaḥyā Nevʿī) Efendi (d.1007/1599)-who tutored the sons of Murad (Murād) III (r.