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