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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 Tabrizi by Rumi, ostensibly by Shams Tabrizi. The introduction of the term is attributed to Rudaki.
A famous appearance of the word is in Goethe's West-Östlicher Divan (Poems of West and East), reflecting the poet's abiding interest in Middle Eastern and specifically Persian literature.
It has also been applied in a similar way to collections of Hebrew poetry and to poetry of al-Andalus
1. Encyclopaedia Iranica, s.v. Dīvān, VOLUME 7 FASCICLE 4.