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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- 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).