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.