His father, Osman Şehabeddin Bey, was a major in the Ottoman Army and he died during the Siege of Plevna during the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).

[2] Cenap Şahabeddin is one of the main figure who has been accepted as an authority in various fields of literature, especially poetry, in his writing activities starting from 1895 and continuing until his death.

[5] Cenap Şahabeddin, who was born and raised in a family closely interested in literature, was under the influence of Muallim Naci and Şeyh Vasfi when he was fifteen or sixteen, and prepared and compiled their ghazals.

[6] After this period, the new poems of Cenap Şahabeddin, who started to read the works of masters such as Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan and Recâizâde Mahmud Ekrem, were published in the journals Gülşen, Sebat and İmdâdü'l-midâd, together with the newspaper Saadet.

[7] During his tenure at Istanbul University, students protested, claiming that he praised the Greeks and made derogatory remarks about the Turkish war of independence during a lecture.