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A divan (Turkish divan, Hindi deevaan originally from Kurdish [1] devan) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture or, in some regions, a box-spring-based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or a raised structure or ...
A box-spring (or divan in some countries) is a type of bed base typically consisting of a sturdy wooden frame covered in cloth and containing springs. Usually, the box-spring is placed on top of a wooden or metal bedframe that sits on the floor and acts as a brace, except in the UK where the divan is more often fitted with small casters .
The first dīwān was created under Caliph Umar (r. 634–644 CE) in 15 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 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.
Yasir was born to Fareed Nawaz Baloch, an actor who had more than 100 TV plays to his credit and also performed in two films, in a family of four children. [3] He is a Sindhi-Baloch by ethnicity but identifies as a Sindhi in terms of culture. [4] He is the elder brother of fellow actor-director and comedian Danish Nawaz. [5]
Divan Group is a hotel group based in Turkey; its flagship is the Divan Istanbul next to Taksim Gezi Park. Founded in 1956, it is part of the Koç family 's Koç Holding . [ 1 ] In 2015 the Group had 15 hotels in Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, with 6 more hotels in pipeline and plans to expand overseas to locations including New York ...
The Diwan, or Divan (Persian: دیوان), is a collection of poems written and compiled by Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088 AD). Khusraw composed most of his poems in the Valley of Yumgan, a remote mountainous region in Badakhshan (in present-day Afghanistan). The Divan contains around 11,000 verses of Khusraw's own poetry, reflecting philosophical ...
Yasir Abdullah (born 2000), American gridiron football player; Yasir ibn Amir (died 615 C.E.) is known in the Islamic traditions as the second person in history to be martyred for having adopted the faith of Islam. Yaser Abdel Said (born 1957), Egyptian fugitive wanted for the murder of his two daughters; Yassir Abdul-Mohsen, Iraqi footballer
Note then that we may define a dual to the dual, referred to as the double dual of , written as , and defined as (,). To formally construct a basis for the dual space, we shall now restrict our view to the case where F {\displaystyle F} is a finite-dimensional free (left) R {\displaystyle R} -module, where R {\displaystyle R} is a ring with unity.