Zübeyde Fitnat Hanım

Fitnat Hanım (died 1780) was the pen name of Zübeyde, regarded as the foremost woman poet of the Ottoman Divan school. Born in Istanbul into a family of religious scholars, she was the daughter of Ebu İshakzade Mehmet Esad Efendi, şeyhülislam under Mahmud I.

Her marriage to Derviş Mehmet Efendi, a kazasker of Rumeli, proved unhappy and stifled her writing. Admired in the capital's literary circles, she exchanged poems with Grand Vizier Koca Ragıp Pasha; some of her poems were translated into Western languages in the nineteenth century, when she was called the queen of poets.