institution dedicated to the political and social affairs of the tribe. A diwan or diwan-khane was a special room, or house, dedicated to the agha and his male...

Middle Eastern music ensemble founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said Diwan-khane, guest house of the tribal chieftain in the tribal Middle Eastern, Arab...

during 19 century. The first palace, is a two-storey building known as Diwan Khane, which was originally meant as a guest house for women and children of...

attested in Sumerian as dub, found in clay tablet. It is comparable to the diwan-khane of Persian households, and derives from the word divan, meaning a formal...

al-Madi family's luxurious seventeenth-century madafeh (guest house, see Diwan-khane) was transformed into a museum and then the home of a Jewish family,...

Fakhri; Arz al-Baladin, a short treatise on geodesy written in 1860, Rasad Khane-y Maragheh on the history of the Maragheh Observatory, and Joghrafiay-e...