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Divan of Iraj Mirza

The Divan of Iraj Mirza (دیوان ایرج میرزا) is the collected Persian poetry of the Qajar prince and satirical poet Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), including Arefnameh and Zohreh o Manuchehr.

Divan of Iraqi

The Divan of Iraqi (دیوان عراقی) is the collected Persian lyric poetry of Fakhr al-Din Ibrahim Iraqi, a 13th-century Sufi poet born in Hamadan who lived in Multan and died in Damascus in 1289.

Divan of Jami

The Divan of Jami (دیوان جامی) is the collected lyric poetry of the Persian poet Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414–1492), gathered into three sections in its final 1479 recension.

Divan of Kalim Kashani

The Divan of Kalim Kashani (دیوان کلیم کاشانی) is the collected Persian poetry of Kalim, poet laureate at Shah Jahan's court and a master of the ghazal.

Divan of Khalilullah Khalili

The Divan of Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل‌الله خلیلی) is the collected Persian poetry of the Afghan poet Khalilullah Khalili, issued in editions at Kabul, Tehran, and Baghdad from 1961 to 2006.

Divan of Khaqani

The Divan of Khaqani (دیوان خاقانی) is the collected Persian poetry of Khaqani Shirvani, a 12th-century court poet of the Shirvanshahs famed for his qasidas.

Divan of Lahuti

The Divan of Lahuti (دیوان ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) is the collected Persian poetry of Abu'l-Qasem Lahuti, the Kermanshah-born Marxist poet who became a founder of modern Persian-language poetry in Soviet Tajikistan.

Divan of Magtymguly

Divan of Magtymguly (Magtymgulynyň diwany), is the 18th-century Turkmen collected body of lyric poetry by poet and thinker Magtymguly Pyragy, inscribed on the UNESCO register in 2023.

Divan of Mehdi Akhavan Sales

The Divan of Mehdi Akhavan Sales (دیوان مهدی اخوان ثالث) is the collected poetry of the Iranian poet Mehdi Akhavan Sales (1928–1990), known for the collection Zemestan.

Divan of Mohammad Hossein Shahriar

The Divan of Mohammad Hossein Shahriar is the collected poetry of Shahriar, written in both Persian and his native Azeri Turkic, with the ghazal the dominant form.

Divan of Muhibbî

The Divan of Muhibbî (Dîvân-ı Muhibbî) is the collected Turkish poetry of Ottoman sultan Süleyman I, who wrote under the pen name Muhibbî throughout his reign.

Divan of Muhtasham Kashani

The Divan of Muhtasham Kashani (دیوان محتشم کاشانی) is the collected Persian poetry of the Safavid-era poet Muhtasham Kashani, about 13,000 verses, best known for his elegy on Imam Husayn at Karbala.

Divan of Nasimi

The Divan of Nasimi (Nəsimi divanı) is the collected poetry of Imadaddin Nasimi, the Hurufi poet regarded as the founder of the school of philosophical poetry in Azerbaijani.

Divan of Nasir Khusraw

The Divan of Nasir Khusraw (دیوان ناصر خسرو) is the collected Persian poetry of Nasir Khusraw, the eleventh-century Ismaili poet and Fatimid missionary of Khurasan.

Divan of Naziri Nishapuri

The Divan of Naziri Nishapuri (دیوان نظیری نیشابوری) is the collected Persian poetry of poet Naziri Nishapuri, who compiled about 12,000 verses before his death around 1612.

Divan of Nima Yooshij

The Divan of Nima Yooshij (دیوان نیما یوشیج) is the collected poems of the Iranian poet Nima Yooshij, founder of modern Persian poetry, including free verse and Mazandarani quatrains.

Divan of Parvin E'tesami

The Divan of Parvin E'tesami (دیوان پروین اعتصامی) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Parvin E'tesami, first published in Tehran in 1935, the only book she published in her lifetime.

Divan of Qaani Shirazi

The Divan of Qaani Shirazi (دیوان قاآنی شیرازی) is the collected Persian poetry of Mirza Habib-Allah Shirazi, known as Qa'ani (1808–1854), the greatest poet of the Qajar period.

Divan of Rudaki

The Divan of Rudaki (دیوان رودکی) is the modern collected edition of the poetry of Rudaki (858–941), the first major New Persian poet, at the Samanid court.

Divan of Sa'ib Tabrizi

The Divan of Sa'ib Tabrizi (دیوان صائب تبریزی) is the collected Persian poetry of Ṣāʾeb Tabrizi, the leading Safavid lyric poet of the Indian style.

Divan of Saadi

The Divan of Saadi (دیوان سعدی) is the collected lyric and occasional poetry of the 13th-century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz, compiled about four decades after his death.

Divan of Sanai

The Divan of Sanai (دیوان سنایی) is the collection of shorter poems, ghazals, qasidas, and rubaiyats by the Persian poet Sanai of Ghazna, who died in 1131.

Divan of Shams Tabrizi

The Divan of Shams Tabrizi, or Divan-e Kabir, is the collection of lyric Persian poetry written by Rumi and named for his companion Shams al-Din of Tabriz.

Divan of Sohrab Sepehri

The Divan of Sohrab Sepehri is the collected poetical work of the Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), best known through the 1978 compendium Hašt ketāb.

Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir

The Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir (دیوان سلطان احمد جلایر) is an illuminated manuscript of poems by Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, made around 1400 and held in Washington, DC.

Divan of Suzani Samarqandi

The Divan of Suzani Samarqandi (دیوان سوزنی سمرقندی) is the collected Persian poetry of Suzani, a 12th-century poet known for satires written at the courts of Samarqand and Bukhara.

Divan of the Ilkhanate

The Divan of the Ilkhanate (دیوان ایلخانان) was the central fiscal and chancery administration of the Ilkhanid state in Iran, directing finance and civil government from 1256 to 1337.

Divan of the Sadrazam

The Divan of the Sadrazam (دیوان صدراعظم) was the central administration attached to the grand vizier of Qajar Iran, managing taxation, accounting, and budgets until the Constitutional Revolution.

Divan of Tripoli

The Divan of Tripoli was the supreme governing council of Ottoman Tripoli, in present-day Libya, where the pasha, Janissary officers, and corsair captains shared authority.

Divan of Tunis

The Divan of Tunis was the governing council of janissary officers in Ottoman Tunisia, established by Sinan Pasha in the kasbah after the Ottoman conquest of Tunis in 1574.