Back الديوان Arabic Divan (idarə) Azerbaijani Диван (учреждение) Bulgarian Divan (rigsråd) Danish Diwan (Verwaltung) German Diván (institución) Spanish دیوان (سازمان اداری) Persian Divan (institution) French Diván Hungarian Diwan ID

Divan

For the type of modern furniture, see Divan (furniture).
For other uses, see Diwan (disambiguation).
"Diwan-i-Am" redirects here. For the room in the Red Fort of Delhi, see Diwan-i-Am (Red Fort).
Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.

A divan or diwan (Persian: دیوان, dīvān; from Sumerian dub, clay tablet)[1] was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see dewan).

  1. ^ de Blois 1995, p. 432.

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