Sadi Abdülbâkî Efendi, one of the 18th century divan poets, was born in Van. He is the brother of the famous poet Durrî-i Yek-Cheshm Efendi from Van and Salih Efendi, who wrote poems with the pseudonym Feyzî. Coming from a poet family, Sadi Efendi received a good education. He established good relations with the notables of the state at a certain period of his life. First of all, including Sultan III. Ahmed, he wrote praises to many viziers, grand viziers and statesmen, and dates were dropped for events such as their weddings, births and promotions. Sadî Abdülbâkî translated Idris-i Bitlisî’s eight thousand couplets Persian Hesht Behisht into Turkish upon the order of Mahmud I. It is also known that the poet wrote Persian and Turkish poems. Sources that give information about the poet mention him with praise, stating that he is a polite, verbal, and knowledgeable person. It is not known whether the poet had a divan or a divan, except for a few of his poems in tezkires. The poet's poems are scattered in the divan of his brother, Dürrî-i Yek-Cheshm Efendi, and are mostly found in alleys. In this study, information about the life and literary personality of Sadî Efendi, whose biography and poems have not been studied in detail until today, was given and twenty-four poems of the poet, which were not published before, were translated into translation.
Keywords: Saʿdî Efendi, Durri, joint gazel, Van, Hesht Behisht
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