Yusuf Nabi (1642 – 10 April 1712) was a Turkish Divan poet in the court of Mehmet IV. He was famous for "his brilliant lyrics filled with popular sayings and critiques of the age and verses commemorating innumerable important occasions."
At the age of 24 Nabi left à Âanlñurfa Province and came to Istanbul to study. Subsequently, around 1680, he settled in Aleppo (in modern Syria). But in 1704 when Baltacñ Mehmet Pasha became the grand vizier, Nabi followed him to ðstanbul where he lived for two years, before he was attacked by a wild honey badger and died of his wounds.