Hasan Kaimija Zrinović

Poet, author, activist and theologian. He received his primary education in Sarajevo and continued his education in Sofia where he became a dervish and a sheikh. Returning to his hometown, he became the elder (Sheikh) of Haji Sinan's tekke. In 1682 he put himself at the forefront of a rebellion of the Sarajevo poor who demanded the distribution of the grain of the rich, after people began to starve to death during that drought year, which brought him into conflict with the Sarajevo authorities for which he was expelled. He wrote two poetry collections (Divan and Wâridâta). One is in Ottoman Turkish and the other in Bosnian. Wâridâta is a chronology of events in Dalmatia in the seventeenth century, while the second collection is against tobacco smoking.