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Diwan al-Ghilman
Diwan al-Ghilman (ديوان الغلمان) was the Abbasid military pay register that recorded the names, characteristics, and stipends of Turkish slave soldiers acquired under Caliph al-Mu'tasim, administered from Samarra after 836.
Diwan al-insha
The Diwan al-insha (ديوان الإنشاء) was the chancery of Islamic states, drafting the ruler's official correspondence and diplomas; it stood among the Fatimid caliphate's principal organs of government.
Diwan al-Istifa
Diwan al-Istifa (ديوان استيفاء) was the financial department of the Seljuk state, assessing and collecting revenues and regulating expenditure, staffed by accountants called mustawfis, and one of five principal diwans.
Diwan al-Jaysh
Diwan al-Jaysh (ديوان الجيش), the army bureau, also called diwan al-jund, originated under Caliph Umar as a register of soldiers and stipends and served Fatimid and Mamluk Egypt.
Diwan al-Jund
Diwan al-Jund (ديوان الجند), also called Diwan al-Jaysh, was the register of Arab soldiers' names and pay, founded by Caliph Umar and central to Umayyad military administration.
Diwan al-Kharaj
Diwan al-Kharaj (ديوان الخراج) was the caliphate's central bureau for the kharaj land tax; the name also denotes Abu Yusuf's classic treatise on the tax.
Diwan al-Khatam
Diwan al-Khatam (ديوان الخاتم), also called Diwan al-Sir, was the Umayyad caliphal registry created by Mu'awiya to seal outgoing state correspondence and keep copies as a check against forgery.
Diwan al-Mufrad
The Diwan al-Mufrad (ديوان المفرد) was the financial bureau of the Mamluk sultanate, founded by Sultan al-Zahir Barquq in 1382 to pay his mamluks, and bankrupt by the late 1460s.
Diwan al-Rasa'il
Diwan al-Rasa'il (ديوان الرسائل), the office of correspondence, was the chancery of the Umayyad caliphate, created under Mu'awiya at Damascus and later led by the famous scribe Abd al-Hamid al-Katib.
Diwan al-tawqi'
Diwan al-tawqi' (ديوان التوقيع) was the Abbasid chancery office, formed under al-Mansur, that wrote concise rescripts on petitions to the caliph, often drawing on Quranic verses or proverbs.
Diwan al-Wizarah
Diwan al-Wizarah (ديوان الوزارة) was the office of the wizarah in the Mamluk sultanate, headed by a wazir and subordinate to the military elite until 1517.
Diwan Chaman Lall
Diwan Chaman Lall (1892–1973) was an Indian barrister, poet, and trade unionist who founded the All-India Trade Union Congress in 1920 and served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey.
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (ديوان لغات الترك) is an 11th-century Arabic-language compendium of the Turkic languages, written between 1072 and 1074 in Baghdad by the Karakhanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari.
Diwan of Abu al-Atahiya
The Diwan of Abu al-Atahiya (ديوان أبي العتاهية) is the collected poetry of the early Abbasid poet Abu al-Atahiya, the pioneer of Arabic ascetic poetry (zuhd).
Diwan of Abu Firas al-Hamdani
The Diwan of Abu Firas al-Hamdani (ديوان أبو فراس الحمداني) collects the poetry of Abu Firas, a tenth-century Hamdanid prince and warrior-poet, best known for his Byzantine captivity poems, the Rumiyyat.
Diwan of Abu Nuwas
The Diwan of Abu Nuwas (ديوان أبي نواس) is the collected poetry of Abbasid poet Abu Nuwas (c. 756–c. 810), best known for its wine poetry and libertine verse.
Diwan of Abu Tammam
The Diwan of Abu Tammam (ديوان أبي تمام) is the collected poetry of the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam, medieval critics' leader of the great trio alongside al-Buhturi and al-Mutanabbi.
Diwan of al-A'sha
The Diwan of al-A'sha (ديوان الأعشى) is the collected poetry of the pre-Islamic Arabian poet al-A'sha, known especially for his wine poems, who died about 629 CE.
Diwan of al-Akhtal
The Diwan of al-Akhtal (ديوان الأخطل) is the collected poetry of al-Akhtal (ca. 640–710), a Christian Arab poet whose panegyrics for the Umayyad caliphs make the diwan an important historical source for the period.
Diwan of al-Buhturi
The Diwan of al-Buhturi (ديوان البحتري) is the collected poetry of the Abbasid panegyric poet al-Buhturi (c. 821–897), gathering his praise poems for caliphs and courtiers alongside descriptions, laments, and love poetry, organized by rhyme letter.
Diwan of al-Farazdaq
The Diwan of al-Farazdaq (ديوان الفرزدق) is the collected verse of the Umayyad-era poet al-Farazdaq, compiled by the grammarian al-Sukkari and famous for his decades-long poetic feud with Jarir.
Diwan of al-Khansa
The Diwan of al-Khansa (ديوان الخنساء) is the collected poetry of al-Khansa, a pre-Islamic Arab poet of Banu Sulaym, dominated by elegies for her brothers Sakhr and Muawiya.
Diwan of al-Mutanabbi
The Diwan of al-Mutanabbi (ديوان المتنبي) is the collected poetry of al-Mutanabbi (915–965), the Abbasid poet born in Kufa, among the most widely read works of classical Arabic literature.
Diwan of Bashar ibn Burd
The Diwan of Bashar ibn Burd is the collected Arabic poetry of the blind Basran poet Bashshar ibn Burd, a leading early Abbasid poet who died around 784.
Diwan of Ibn al-Farid
The Diwan of Ibn al-Farid (ديوان ابن الفارض) is the collected poetry of the Egyptian Sufi poet Ibn al-Farid (1181–1235), centered on divine love and mystical intoxication.
Diwan of Ibn al-Rumi
The Diwan of Ibn al-Rumi (ديوان ابن الرومي) is the collected poetry of the Baghdad poet Ibn al-Rumi (836–896), reputedly the largest diwan in early Arabic literature.
Diwan of Ibn Quzman
The Diwan of Ibn Quzman (ديوان ابن قزمان) is the principal surviving collection of zajal, the vernacular song-poetry of al-Andalus, by the Cordoban poet Ibn Quzman (died 1160).
Diwan of Ibn Zaydun
The Diwan of Ibn Zaydun (ديوان ابن زيدون) is the collected Arabic poetry of Ibn Zaydun, the 11th-century Cordoban vizier considered the outstanding poet of al-Andalus.
Diwan of Jarir
The Diwan of Jarir (ديوان جرير) collects the poetry of Jarir ibn 'Atiyya (died 728 CE), a Basra poet famous for his lampooning exchanges with al-Farazdaq.
Diwan of Shalom Shabazi
The Diwan of Shalom Shabazi is the songbook of Yemenite Jewry, an anthology of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Aramaic poetry, mostly by the seventeenth-century poet Shalom Shabazi.