divan
Sign in to savethumb|Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
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Within Vinony's link graph, divan is referenced by 398 other articles, and connects out to Byzantine Empire, sultan and Sasanian Empire.
It sits within the topics Government of the Abbasid Caliphate, Government of the Ottoman Empire and Government of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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- government agency
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- Ottoman Empire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Diwan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Creation and development under the early caliphates
- Establishment and Umayyad period
- Abbasid period
- Later Islamic dynasties
- Saffarids, Ziyarid, Sajids, Buyids and Samanids
- Seljuks
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Government councils
- Ministerial departments
- References
- Sources
thumb|Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
A divan or diwan (, dīvān; from Sumerian dub, clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see dewan).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “divan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.