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{{Short description|High government ministry in various Islamic states}}
{{About||the type of furniture|Divan (furniture)|the traditional festival of the Bunjevci people in Hungary|Bunjevci#Dance}}
{{redirect|Diwan-i-Am|the room in the Red Fort of Delhi|Diwan-i-Am (Red Fort)}}

[[File:Jean-Baptiste van Mour 006.jpg|thumb|Audience in the Diwan-i-Khas granted to the French ambassador, the vicomte d'Andrezel by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Ahmed III|Sultan Ahmed III]], 10 October 1724, in a contemporary painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.]]

A '''divan''' or '''diwan''' ({{langx|fa|دیوان}}, ''dīvān''; from [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] ''dub'', [[clay tablet]]){{sfn|de Blois|1995|p=432}} was a high government ministry in various [[Islamic state]]s, or its chief official (see ''[[dewan]]'').

==Etymology==
[[File:Asif musicians 1812.jpg|250px|thumb|The winter Diwan of a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[Nawab]] (painting from 1812)]]

The word, recorded in English since 1586, meaning "Oriental council of a state", comes from [[Persian language|Persian]] {{lang|fa|دیوان}} (''dêvân'') and consequently spread via [[Turkish language|Turkish]] ''divan''.

It is first attested in [[Middle Persian]] spelled as ''dpywʾn'' and ''dywʾn'', itself hearkening back, via [[Old Persian]], [[Elamite]] and [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], ultimately to [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] ''dub'', clay tablet.{{sfn|de Blois|1995|p=432}} The word was borrowed into [[Armenian language|Armenian]] as well as ''divan''; on linguistic grounds this is placed after the 3rd century, which helps establish the original Middle Persian (and eventually [[New Persian]]) form was ''dīvān'', not ''dēvān'', despite later legends that traced the origin of the word to the latter form. The variant pronunciation ''dēvān'' however did exist, and is the form surviving to this day in [[Tajiki Persian]].{{sfn|de Blois|1995|p=432}}

In Arabic, the term was first used for the army registers, then generalized to any register, and by [[metonymy]] applied to specific government departments.{{Sfn|Duri|1991|p=323}} The sense of the word evolved to "custom house" and "council chamber", then to "long, cushioned seat", such as are found along the walls in Middle-Eastern council chambers. The latter is the sense that entered European languages as [[divan (furniture)]].

The modern French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian words ''douane'', ''aduana'', and ''dogana'', respectively (meaning "[[customs house]]"), also come from ''diwan''.{{sfn|Holt|Lambton|Lewis|1977|p=533}}

==Creation and development under the early caliphates==

=== Earlier Context ===
In [[History of Iran|ancient Iran]] (at least from the time of the legendary [[Vishtaspa]] and before the historical [[Darius the Great|Darius]], circa the 6th century BCE), there existed an official position ranked below the minister or [[Vizier]] (known by titles such as ''[[Wuzurg framadar|Vuzurg Farmadar]]'' or ''Bozorgmehr'') and above the military commanders (''[[Spahbed|spahbods]]'') and provincial governors (''[[Satrap|satraps]]'').<ref>Ibn Miskawayh, A. b. M. b. Y. (dates approx. 320-421 AH). ''Tajarib al-Umam wa Ta'aqub al-Himam'' [Experiences of the Nations and the Succession of Aspirations]. Edited and introduced by Abu al-Qasim Emami. Tehran: Soroush Publishing, 2000. (Original work written in 10th-11th century CE).</ref><ref>Balkhi, Ibn. "Farsnameh." ''Foundation for Fars Studies Publication, Shiraz'' (1995).</ref> This position was called "Iranmarkar" or "Iranmarghar," meaning "the highest-ranking administrator of [[Iran]]" or "the highest-ranking official in charge of affairs in [[Iran]]." In summary, there was a time when, apart from the king and his minister, there existed a senior-most administrator responsible for the management of the state's affairs—in [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid empire]] that was a [[superpower]], encompassing at least twenty countries across three continents, with a population amounting to approximately 44 percent of the entire world at the time.<ref>https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-empire-by-percentage-of-world-population</ref><ref>https://www.livescience.com/worlds-biggest-empire.html</ref> Therefore, some sorts of [[bureaucracy]] techniques (named Diwan or [[Divan]]) was one of the significant inventions of the Iranians, holding its own functions, legitimacy, and importance, and continues after it, to be one of the fundamental mechanisms of successor states.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Briant |first=Pierre |url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065748 |title=From Cyrus to Alexander |date=2002-07-21 |publisher=Penn State University Press |isbn=978-1-57506-574-8}}</ref><ref>Kuhrt, Amélie. ''The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period''. Routledge, 2007.</ref>

===Establishment and Umayyad period===
{{see also|Rashidun Caliphate|Umayyad Caliphate}}
The first ''dīwān'' was created under Caliph [[Umar]] ({{reign|634|644}} CE) in 15 [[Anno Hegirae|A.H.]] (636/7 CE) or, more likely, 20 A.H. (641 CE). It comprised the names of the warriors of [[Medina]] who participated in the [[Early Muslim conquests|Muslim conquests]] and their families, and was intended to facilitate the payment of salary (''ʿaṭāʾ'', in coin or in rations) to them, according to their service and their relationship to [[Muhammad]]. This first army register (''dīwān [[jund|al-jund]]'') was soon emulated in other provincial capitals like [[Basra]], [[Kufa]] and [[Fustat]].{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=323}}{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|pp=432–433}} [[Al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba]], a statesman from the [[Banu Thaqif|Thaqif]] tribe who was versed in [[Middle Persian|Persian]], is credited with establishing Basra's ''dīwān'' during his governorship (636–638), and the ''dīwān'' of the Caliphate's other garrison centers followed its organization.{{sfn|Wellhausen|1927|pp=115–116}}

With the advent of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]], the number of ''dīwāns'' increased. To the ''dīwān al-jund'', the first [[Umayyad dynasty|Umayyad]] caliph, [[Mu'awiya]] (r. 661–680), added the bureau of the land tax (''dīwān [[kharaj|al-kharāj]]'') in [[Damascus]], which became the main ''dīwān'', as well as the bureau of correspondence (''dīwān al-rasāʾil''), which drafted the caliph's letters and official documents, and the bureau of the seal (''dīwān al-khātam''), which checked and kept copies of all correspondence before sealing and dispatching it.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=323}}{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}} A number of more specialist departments were also established, probably by Mu'awiya: the ''dīwān al-barīd'' in charge of the [[Barid (caliphate)|postal service]]; the bureau of expenditure (''dīwān al-nafaqāt''), which most likely indicates the survival of a [[Byzantine]] institution; the ''dīwān al-ṣadaqa'' was a new foundation with the task of estimating the ''[[zakat|zakāt]]'' and ''[[ushr (tax)|ʿushr]]'' levies; the ''dīwān al-mustaghallāt'' administered state property in cities; the ''dīwān al-ṭirāz'' controlled the government workshops that made official banners, costumes and some furniture.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}}{{sfn|Duri|1991|pp=323–324}} Aside from the central government, there was a local branch of the ''dīwān al-kharāj'', the ''dīwān al-jund'' and the ''dīwān al-rasāʾil'' in every province.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}}

Under Caliph [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan|Abd al-Malik]] ({{reign|685|705}}), the practices of the various departments began to be standardized and Arabized: instead of the local languages ([[Greek language|Greek]] in [[Bilad al-Sham|Syria]], [[Coptic language|Coptic]] and Greek in [[Medieval Egypt|Egypt]], Persian in the former [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] lands) and the traditional practices of book-keeping, seals and time-keeping, only Arabic and the [[Islamic calendar]] were to be used henceforth. The process of Arabization was gradual: in Iraq, the transition was carried out by [[Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman]] under the auspices of the governor [[al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf]] in 697, in Syria by [[Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani]] in 700, in Egypt under Caliph [[al-Walid I]]'s governor [[Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik]] in 706, and in [[Greater Khorasan|Khurasan]] by [[Ishaq ibn Tulayq al-Nahshali]] on the orders of [[Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi]], governor of Iraq, in 741/42.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}}{{sfn|Sprengling|1939|pp=211–214}}

===Abbasid period===
{{see also|Abbasid Caliphate}}
Under the [[Abbasid Caliphate]] the administration, partly under the increasing influence of [[Sassanid Persia|Iranian]] culture, became more elaborate and complex.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}} As part of this process, the ''dīwāns'' increased in number and sophistication, reaching their apogee in the 9th–10th centuries.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} At the same time, the office of [[vizier]] (''wazīr'') was also created to coordinate government.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} The administrative history of the Abbasid ''dīwāns'' is complex, since many were short-lived, temporary establishments for specific needs, while at times the sections of larger ''dīwān'' might also be termed ''dīwāns'', and often a single individual was placed in charge of more than one department.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}}

Caliph [[al-Saffah]] (r. 749–754) established a department for the confiscated properties of the Umayyads after his victory in the [[Abbasid Revolution]]. This was probably the antecedent of the later ''dīwān al-ḍiyāʿ'', administering the caliph's personal domains.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} Similarly, under [[al-Mansur]] (r. 754–775) there was a bureau of confiscations (''dīwān al-muṣādara''), as well as a ''dīwān al-aḥshām'', probably in charge of palace service personnel, and a bureau of petitions to the Caliph (''dīwān al-riḳāʿ'').{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} Caliph [[al-Mahdi]] (r. 775–785) created a parallel ''dīwān al-zimām'' (control bureau) for every one of the existing ''dīwāns'', as well as a central control bureau (''zimām al-azimma''). These acted as [[comptroller]]s as well as coordinators between the various bureaus, or between individual ''dīwāns'' and the vizier.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} In addition, a ''dīwān [[al-maẓālim]]'' was created, staffed by judges, to hear complaints against government officials.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} The remit of the ''dīwān al-kharāj'' now included all land taxes (''kharāj'', ''zakāt'', and ''[[jizya]]'', both in money and in kind), while another department, the ''dīwān al-ṣadaqa'', dealt with assessing the ''zakāt'' of cattle. The correspondence of the ''dīwān al-kharāj'' was checked by another department, the ''dīwān al-khātam''.{{sfn|Duri|1991|pp=324, 325}} As in Umayyad times, miniature copies of the ''dīwān al-kharāj'', the ''dīwān al-jund'' and the ''dīwān al-rasāʾil'' existed in every province, but by the mid-9th century each province also maintained a branch of its ''dīwān al-kharāj'' in the capital.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}}

The treasury department (''bayt al-māl'' or ''dīwān al-sāmī'') kept the records of revenue and expenditure, both in money and in kind, with specialized ''dīwāns'' for each category of the latter (e.g. cereals, cloth, etc.). Its secretary had to mark all orders of payment to make them valid, and it drew up monthly and yearly balance sheets.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}} The ''dīwān al-jahbad̲ha'', responsible for the treasury's balance sheets, was eventually branched off from it, while the treasury domains were placed under the ''dīwān al-ḍiyāʿ'', of which there appear at times to have been several.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}} In addition, a department of confiscated property (''dīwān al-musādarīn'') and confiscated estates (''dīwān al-ḍiyāʿ al-maqbūḍa'') existed.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}}

Caliph [[al-Mu'tadid]] (r. 892–902) grouped the branches of the provincial ''dīwāns'' present in the capital into a new department, the ''dīwān al-dār'' (bureau of the palace) or ''dīwān al-dār al-kabīr'' (great bureau of the palace), where "''al-dār''" probably meant the vizier's palace.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} At the same time, the various ''zimām'' bureaux were combined into a single ''dīwān al-zimām'' which re-checked all assessments, payments and receipts against its own records and, according to the 11th-century scholar [[al-Mawardi]], was the "guardian of the rights of ''bayt al-māl'' [the treasury] and the people".{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}} The ''dīwān al-nafaḳāt'' played a similar role with regards to expenses by the individual ''dīwāns'', but by the end of the 9th&nbsp;century its role was mostly restricted to the finances of the caliphal palace.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}} Under [[al-Muktafi]] (r. 902–908) the ''dīwān al-dār'' was broken up into three departments, the bureaux of the eastern provinces (''dīwān [[Mashriq|al-mashriq]]''), of the western provinces (''dīwān [[Maghreb|al-maghrib]]''), and of the Iraq (''dīwān [[Sawad|al-sawād]]''), although under [[al-Muqtadir]] (r. 908–932) the ''dīwān al-dār'' still existed, with the three territorial departments considered sections of the latter.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} In 913/4, the vizier [[Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah|Ali ibn Isa]] established a new department for charitable endowments (''dīwān al-birr''), whose revenue went to the upkeep of holy places, the [[Haram (site)|two holy cities]] of [[Mecca]] and [[Medina]], and on volunteers fighting in the holy war against the [[Byzantine Empire]].{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}}

Under Caliph [[al-Mutawakkil]] (r. 847–861), a bureau of servants and pages (''dīwān [[mawali|al-mawālī]] wa [[ghilman|’l-ghilmān]]''), possibly an evolution of the ''dīwān al-aḥshām'', existed for the huge number of slaves and other attendants of the palace.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} In addition, the ''dīwān al-khātam'', now also known as the ''dīwān al-sirr'' (bureau of confidential affairs) grew in importance.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=324}} [[Miskawayh]] also mentions the existence of a '' dīwān al-ḥaram'', which supervised the women's quarters of the palace.{{sfn|Duri|1991|p=325}}

==Later Islamic dynasties==
{{see|Anarchy at Samarra|Abbasid civil war (865–866)|Zanj Rebellion|Kharijite Rebellion (866–896)}}
As the Abbasid Caliphate began to fragment in the mid-9th century, its administrative machinery was copied by the emergent successor dynasties, with the already extant local ''dīwān'' branches likely providing the base on which the new administrations were formed.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}}

===Saffarids, Ziyarid, Sajids, Buyids and Samanids===
{{see|Anarchy at Samarra|Al-Muti}}
The administrative machinery of the [[Tahirid dynasty|Tahirid]] governors of [[Khurasan]] is almost unknown, except that their treasury was located in their capital of [[Nishapur]].{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}} [[Ya'qub al-Saffar]] (r. 867–879), the founder of the [[Saffarid dynasty]] who supplanted the Tahirids, is known to have had a bureau of the army (''dīwān al-ʿarḍ'') for keeping the lists and supervising the payment of the troops, at his capital [[Zarang]]. Under his successor [[Amr ibn al-Layth]] (r. 879–901) there were two further treasuries, the ''māl-e khāṣṣa'', and an unnamed bureau under the chief secretary corresponding to a chancery (''dīwān al-rasāʾil'' or ''dīwān al-inshāʾ'').{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=433}}

The [[Buyids]], who took over Baghdad and the remains of the Abbasid Caliphate in 946, drew partly on the established Abbasid practice, but was adapted to suit the nature of the rather decentralized Buyid "confederation" of autonomous emirates.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=434}} The Buyid bureaucracy was headed by three great departments: the ''dīwān al-wazīr'', charged with finances, the ''dīwān al-rasāʾil'' as the state chancery, and the ''dīwān al-jaysh'' for the army.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=434}} The Buyid regime was a military regime, its ruling caste composed of [[Turkic peoples|Turkish]] and [[Daylamites|Daylamite]] troops. As a result, the army department was of particular importance, and its head, the ''ʿariḍ al-jaysh'', is frequently mentioned in the sources of the period. Indeed, at the turn of the 11th century, there were two ''ʿariḍs'', one for the Turks and one for the Daylamites, hence the department was often called "department of the two armies" (''dīwān al-jayshayn'').{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=434}} A number of junior departments, like the ''dīwān al-zimām'', the ''dīwān al-ḍiyāʿ'', or the ''dīwān al-barīd'' were directly inherited from the Abbasid government. Under [[Adud al-Dawla]] (r. 978–983), however, the ''dīwān al-sawād'', which oversaw the rich lands of lower Iraq, was moved from Baghdad to [[Shiraz]]. In addition, a ''dīwān al-khilāfa'' was established to oversee the affairs of the Abbasid caliphs, who continued to reside in Baghdad as puppets of the Buyid emirs.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=434}}

===Seljuks===
{{See also|Seljuk Sultanate|Seljuk dynasty|Al-Muqtadi}}
The [[Great Seljuks]] tended to cherish their nomadic origins, with their [[sultan]]s leading a [[wikt:peripatetic|peripatetic]] court to their various capitals. Coupled with their frequent absence on campaign, the vizier assumed an even greater prominence, concentrating the direction of civil, military and religious affairs in his own bureau, the "supreme dīwān" (''dīwān al-aʿlā'').{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=434}} The ''dīwān al-aʿlā'' was further subdivided into a chancery (''dīwān al-inshāʾ wa’l-ṭughrā'', also called ''dīwān al-rasāʾil'') under the ''ṭughrāʾī'' or ''munshī al-mamālik'', an accounting department (''dīwān al-zimām wa’l-istīfāʾ'') under the ''mustawfī al-mamālik'', a fiscal oversight office (''dīwān al-ishrāf'' or ''dīwān al-muʿāmalāt'') under the ''mushrif al-mamālik'', and the army department (''dīwān al-ʿarḍ'' or ''dīwān al-jaysh'') under the ''ʿariḍ'' (further divided into the recruitment and supply bureau, ''dīwān al-rawātib'', and the salary and land grants bureau, ''dīwān al-iqṭāʾ'').{{sfn|Lambton|1988|pp=28–29}}{{sfn|Korobeinikov|2014|p=84}} A number of lesser departments is also attested, although they may not have existed at the same time: the office charged with the redress of grievances (''dīwān al-maẓālim''), the state treasury (''bayt al-māl'') and the sultan's private treasury (''bayt al-māl al-khaṣṣ''), confiscations (''dīwān al-muṣādara''), the land tax office (''dīwān al-kharāj'') and the department of religious endowments or ''[[waqf]]s'' (''dīwān al-awqāf''). A postal department (''dīwān al-barīd'') also existed but fell into disuse.{{sfn|Korobeinikov|2014|p=84}}{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=435}} The system was apparently partly copied in provincial centres as well.{{sfn|Bosworth|1995|p=435}}

===Ottoman Tripolitania===
{{see also|Government of the Classical Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Algeria|Ottoman Tunisia}}
Following the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, the [[Maghreb]] was divided into three provinces, [[Ottoman Algeria|Algiers]], [[Ottoman Tunisia|Tunis]], and [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]. After 1565, administrative authority in Tripoli was vested in a [[Pasha]] directly appointed by the Sultan in Constantinople. The sultan provided the pasha with a corps of [[Janissaries]], which was in turn divided into a number of companies under the command of a junior officer or ''[[Bey]]''. The Janissaries quickly became the dominant force in Ottoman Libya. As a self-governing military guild answerable only to their own laws and protected by a ''Divan'' (in this context, a council of senior officers who advised the Pasha), the Janissaries soon reduced the Pasha to a largely ceremonial role.

==Government councils==
The ''[[Divan-ı Hümayun]]'' or [[Sublime Porte]] was for many years the council of ministers  of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. It consisted of the [[Grand Vizier]], who presided, and the other [[vizier]]s, the ''[[kadi'asker]]s'', the ''[[nisanci]]'', and the ''[[defterdar]]s''.

The Assemblies of the [[Danubian Principalities]] under Ottoman rule were also called "divan" ("Divanuri" in Romanian) (see [[Akkerman Convention]], [[ad hoc Divan]]).

In [[Javanese language|Javanese]] and related languages, the cognate '''[[Dewan]]''' is the standard word for chamber, as in the [[Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat]] or Chamber of People's Representatives.

==Ministerial departments==
In the [[sultanate]] of [[Morocco]], several portfolio Ministries had a title based on Diwan:
*''Diwan al-Alaf'': Ministry of War.
*''Diwan al-Bahr'': 'Ministry of the Sea', i.e. (overseas=) Foreign Ministry.
*''Diwan al-Shikayat'' (or ''- Chikayat''): Ministry of Complaints ([[Ombudsman]]).

==References==
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*{{The Arab Kingdom and its Fall}}

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