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{{Short description|High government ministry in various Islamic states}} {{For|the type of furniture|Divan (furniture)}}{{Other uses|Diwan (disambiguation)}} {{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]]'').
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