Wine in sâkînâmes

The works in which amusement councils and related elements are expressed through addresses to Sâkî are called Sâkînâme. Sâkînâmes, examples of which were seen also in Arabic and Persian literatures, had given their first example in Turkish literature in the fourteenth century. Tradition of sâkînâme-writing had continued its existence in our literature until the twentieth century. Large number of the sâkînâmes written for centuries is the evidence of their place and importance in Divan literature. In our study, we tried to set forth with what particulars and how wine had been dealt with in sâkînâmes that took an important place in Divan literature. For this purpose; we provided information on the sâkînâmes in Arabic, Persian and Turkish literatures; description of the wine; place of the wine in history and religions; wine and the other words standing for wine; meanings attributed to the wine in Divan literature; narrations on invention of the wine; and the wine and bezm tradition. We tried to concretize various information on wine we compiled from sources, through the sample couplets we selected from the sâkînâme texts. At the end of our study, we evaluated the findings we obtained from the information which were gathered from sâkînâmes and other sources. We also prepared a glossary of the wine terms in our thesis.