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This book is a revised and extended version of the author&rsquo;s PhD thesis. In the classical Turkish literature, Dhati (d. 1546) is known as the second most prolific ghazal-composing Ottoman poet after Muhibbi (d. 1566). The book, entitled Sosyal Hayat Işığında Z&acirc;t&icirc; Divanı (Dhati&rsquo;s Diwan in the Light of Social Life), aims to present the parallelism between poetical images, as reflected in Dhati&rsquo;s ghazals (love-songs), and some aspects of the then Ottoman social life. It is proposed, in the person of Dhati, that an Ottoman poet&rsquo;s poetical imagination has not been shaped independently from the images ample in the traditional Islamic poetry and from the social life of which the poet had been a part. One of the most attractive aspects of the book is its method; &ldquo;what is said&rdquo; rather than &ldquo;how is said&rdquo; in Dhati&rsquo;s poetry is mostly dealt with. Besides, the concrete reflections of the then social life in the poetry prove that the six-century long Ottoman poetical tradition was not restricted only to socially isolated, abstract emotional life. On the contrary, it can be a good source for cultural history as it reflected many details of the time.

 
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