Bahcat Muṣṭafā Efendi - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin M.
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Bahcat Muṣṭafā Efendi (1188-1249/1774-1834), an Ottoman chief physician and poet, was born into a family of the Ottoman intellectual aristocracy and educated in the medrese in Istanbul. His maternal grandfather was a chief physician. He learnt Latin and Italian from Yaḥyā Nācī Efendi (d. 1239/1824), interpreter of the imperial council, and progressed in the customary ʿilmiyye ( ʿulamāʾ -class) career. He was appointed palace physician in 1210-11/1796 and chief physician in 1218/1803. Following the dethronement of Selīm III (r. 1203-22/1789-1807), he