name that also implies this sense since in the dictionary fuzûl (ﻓﻀﻮل) is given as a plural of fazl (ﻓﻀﻞ; 'learning') and has the same rhythm as ‘ulûm (ﻋﻠﻮم; 'sciences') and fünûn (ﻓﻨﻮن; 'arts')". In 1534, the Ottoman sultan Süleymân I conquered the region of Baghdad, where Fuzûlî lived, from the Safavid Empire. Fuzûlî now had the chance to become a court poet under the Ottoman patronage system, and he composed a number of kasîdes, or panegyric poems, in praise of the sultan and members of his retinue, and as a result, he was granted a stipend. However, owing to the complexities of the Ottoman bureaucracy, this stipend never materialized. In one of his best-known works, the letter Şikâyetnâme (شکايت نامه; "Complaint"), Fuzûlî spoke out against such bureaucracy and its attendant corruption: سلام وردم رشوت دگلدر ديو آلمادىلر Selâm verdim rüşvet değildir deyü almadılar. I gave my greetings but they didn't receive it as it wasn't a bribe. Though his poetry flourished during his time among the Ottomans, the loss of his stipend meant that, materially speaking, Fuzûlî never became secure. In fact, most of his life was spent attending upon the Tomb of `Alî in the city of an-Najaf, south of Baghdad. He died during a plague outbreak in 1556, in Karbalā’, either of the plague itself or of cholera. Works Fuzûlî has always been known, first and foremost, as a poet of love. It was, in fact, a characterization that he seems to have agreed with: مندن فضولی ايستمه اشعار مدح و ذم من عاشقام هميشه سوزوم عاشقانه دیر Menden Fuzûlî isteme eş'âr-ı medh ü zem Men âşıkam hemîşe sözüm âşıkânedür Don't ask Fuzûlî for poems of praise or rebuke I am a lover and speak only of love Fuzûlî's notion of love, however, has more in common with the Sufi idea of love as a projection of the essence of God—though Fuzûlî himself seems to have belonged to no particular Sufi order—than it does with the Western idea of romantic love. This can be seen in the following lines from another poem: عاشق ايمش هر ن وار ﻋﺎﻝﻢ ﻋلم بر قيل و قال ايمش آنجق ‘Âşık imiş her ne var ‘âlem ‘İlm bir kîl ü kâl imiş ancak All that is in the world is love And knowledge is nothing but gossip The first of these lines, especially, relates to the idea of wahdat al-wujūd (وحدة الوجود),