The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulțān Selīm [A Critical Edition]

Yavuz Sulțān Selīm (r. 1512–1520) was not only a battle-hardened warrior and a daring commander of armies but he was also a highly talented and extremely skilful poet who, unlike his Ottoman contemporaries, composed his poems almost exclusively in Persian. The present critical edition of his Persian Dīvān consisting mainly of ghazals, was prepared on the basis of over twenty manuscripts, some of them recently discovered, and it contains considerably more poems than the previous edition prepared by Paul Horn in 1904.