Social life in Fawa'id al-Kibar Divan (Gazals) Of The AlisherNavai

Nizamuddin Mir Ali Shir Nevâyî (d. 1501) is a poet, a historian, a writer, a state and a politician. He had grown up in Chagatai area of Classical Turkish Literature and almost all of his historical and literary works contributed to the formation of Turkish-Islamic culture and civilization in the old Khorasan zone. Ali Şir Nevâyî with his distinguished works and arts is considered as a significant scholar. Almost all his works were prepared in critical edition and published by Turkish Language Association. However, Nevâyî's works have been studied in terms of dialect characteristics rather than literature. Thus classic works, in particular Nevâyî's books are widely in old Chagatai language. Therefore, it is considered that today's readers have difficulties in understanding his works. In this thesis we worked on social aspects of Nevâyî's Divan of Fawa'id al-Kibar. So, we hope his works would be more and more understandable. SUMMARY Our study consists of two parts. The first one is introduction. In this part its given extensive information about Nevâyî's life, literary personality and his works. In addition, in despite of using current sources, we have used old ones too. Particularly Baykara's Risâle, Devlet Shah Semerkandî's Tezkere and Babur Shah's Babur-Nâme. We translated related parts in toTurkish for the reason of getting original information about his life story. Therefore, it has given as a separate section in this study. The second part is subject of our study, which is social aspects in the ghazals of the Divan of Fawa'id al-Kibar. There heve been some negative perspectives on the Ottoman Divan literature, those perspectives have been on Chagatai literature too. This study reveals that, those negative criticism are not very reasonable and just the opposite of that, it had been intertwined with social life. 680 ghazals of the Divan of Fevâidü'l-Kiber were analyzed. Couplets that contain elements of social life gather up under the titles of Characters, Clothings, Behaviors, Traditions, Beliefs and Worships, Other Beliefs, Treatments, Crimes and Punishments, Entertainments and Communications. In addition, the specified couplets were interpreted into nowadays Turkish too