1
His diwan consists of three qusidas (elegies) and eleven fragments.
2
In the court yard before them a large tent was pitched, that served for dining room, dormitory, and reception room, or diwan khaneh.
3
The diwan summoned the captain of the bodyguard, and the latter, to make certainty doubly sure, brutally shook the dead man by the shoulder.
4
He was immersed in the second letter which the Diwan had handed to him.
5
As he explained in the prelude to The Diwan, a collection of love poems:
6
The Diwan smiled and his voice changed once more to a note of insolence.
7
The chief building is the Diwan-i-Khas built by Mirza Raja.
8
The wine-songs were edited by W. Ahlwardt under the title Diwan des Abu Nowas.
9
The Diwan shrugged his shoulders in a gentle, deprecatory fashion and smiled his melancholy smile.
10
His poems (Diwan) were published in Cairo (A.D. 1875).
11
Thousands of Christians have fled Hamidiyeh and Bustan Diwan since they fell into rebel hands in February.
12
The Diwan smiled in a melancholy way.
13
But the Diwan did not stir.
14
On his position in Arabic literature see W. Ahlwardt, Diwan des Abu Nowas (Greifswald, 1861), pp.
15
From the 'Diwan': Translation of C.J.
16
The Diwan nodded his head.