liwan

Two steps took one to the _liwan_, a raised room open one side to the court, and spread with carpets, divans, and Eastern stuffs.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882

For a while it was absent from our sight; but, at length, we heard a loud cry, and trembled at the sound; after which, the ‘Efrit rose as a flame of fire, casting fire from his mouth, and fire and smoke from his eyes and nostrils: the King’s daughter also became as a vast body of fire; and we would have plunged into the water from fear of our being burnt and destroyed; but suddenly the ‘Efrit cried out from within the fire, and came towards us upon the liwan, 4 blowing fire at our faces.

Nights 9-18. The Story of the Envier and the Envied. 1909

Turkish koushk, variant kushk,) with four-and-twenty estrades (liwan, a raised recess, generally a square-shaped room, large or small, open on the side facing the main saloon), all of it of emeralds and rubies and other jewels, and one estrade its kiosk was not finished. "

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879