DIWAN (POETRY)

'Diwan' (Persian دیوان), also transliterated as ''Deewan'' or ''Divan'', is a Persian word used also in to Arabic (Arabic: الدیوان) and Turkish, and was borrowed also at an earlier date into Armenian.^[1]
The term derived from Pahlavi referring to a collection of poems by a single author; it may be a 'selected works', or the whole body of work of an Persian, Urdu or Ottoman Turkish poet. Thus ''Diwan-e-Mir'', and so on. It is also worth mentioning that the most famous work with this word as its title is actually the fictional collection of poetry called ''Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i'' by Rumi, ostensibly by Shams Tabrizi. The introduction of the term is attributed to Rudaki.
It has also been applied in a similar way to collections of Hebrew poetry and to poetry of al-Andalus

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1. ''Encyclopaedia Iranica'', ''s.v.'' ''Dīvān'', VOLUME 7 FASCICLE 4.

See also

★ Persian literature

★ Ottoman poetry

★ Poetic meter of Ottoman Turkish

External links

★ www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com/Edebiyat/, with many examples of Ottoman Divan poetry