The tomb in Kütahya belongs to the poet Şeyhi, also known as Hekim Sinan. His real name was Yusuf Sinanuddin; he came from Kütahya, lived at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century, and was at the Germiyanid court in the reign of Yakub II. He was among the leading poets of his time.
His career explains the second name. The Germiyanid ruler Süleyman Şah took charge of his education and sent him to Iran, and he returned as an eye doctor, serving as personal physician to Yakub II of the Germiyanids and to the Ottoman sultans Mehmed I and Murad II. He is best remembered for the Harname, the first example of satire in Ottoman divan literature — an elegant and celebrated poem about a thin, worn-out donkey broken by the loads it carries, fetching wood and water day and night, its lip drooping and its chin fallen, so weak that a fly landing on its back tires it. His other works are the Divan-i Şeyhi, written in 1438, the Durr ul-akaid, a treatise on medicine, and Hüsrev u Şirin. The tomb is two kilometres from the town centre, on the municipal bus route to Dumlupınar University.
Getting there
- Access
- Two kilometres from the city centre; the municipal public buses to Dumlupınar University reach it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kütahya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.5 °C in January to 20.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (76 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
