Diwan (poetry)
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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.
