Her father was Ebu İshakzade Mehmet Esad Efendi (died 1752), a Sheik ul-Islam, the highest religious authority, under Mahmud I.
Her husband was Derviş Mehmet Efendi, a kazasker (judge) of Rumeli (the European portion of the Empire).
He was a grandson of Feyzullah Efendi, Sheik ul-Islam under Mustafa II.
[3] Fitnat was able to be admitted to the literary circles of the era,[4] and she was known to read poems to Koca Ragıp Pasha, the grand vizier.
"Her story is in many respects one of stifled promise, with the nurturing latitude of the parental home reined in by the strictures of marriage and an unsympathetic mate.