A Mevlevi sheikh and divan poet, also known as Semai Mehmed Chelebi and a descendant of Mevlana. As postnishin of the Afyonkarahisar Mevlevi lodge he made the city the foremost center of the Mevlevi order after Konya, founding numerous lodges across Anatolia and beyond. He is buried in the Afyon Mevlevi lodge (his death is generally dated 936/1529).
