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DA AFḠĀNESTĀN TĀRĪḴ ṬŌLANA
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DĀ O DOḴTAR
Hubertus Von Gall
(lit. “Mother and daughter”), an important rock-cut tomb, probably of the early Hellenistic period, at the northwestern corner of the Mamasanī region of Fārs. Among all the rock-cut tombs of the former territory of Media and of Fārs, it most closely resembles the royal Achaemenid tombs.
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DABBĀḠĪ
ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī
tanning, the process by which animal skins are made into leather.
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DABESTĀN
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(elementary school). See EDUCATION.
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DABESTĀN JOURNAL
Nassereddin Parvin
(“school”), Persian monthly cultural journal published in Mašhad, 1922-27.
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DABESTĀN-E MAḎĀHEB
Fatḥ-Allāh Mojtabāʾī
(school of religious doctrines), an important text of the Āḏar Kayvānī pseudo-Zoroastrian sect, written between 1645 and 1658.
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DABĪR
Aḥmad Tafażżolī, Hashem Rajabzadeh
"secretary, scribe." i. In the pre-Islamic period. ii. In the Islamic period.
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DABĪR-AL-MOLK FARĀHĀNĪ
Guity Nashat
or Mīrzā Moḥammad-Ḥosayn (1810-80), director of the private royal secretariat under Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah.
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DABĪR-E AʿẒAM
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DABĪRE, DABĪRĪ
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
a term designating the “seven scripts” supposedly used in the Sasanian period.
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DABĪRESTĀN
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secondary school. See EDUCATION x. MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
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DABĪRESTĀN-E NEẒĀM
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military secondary school. See pending entry MILITARY.
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DĀBŪYA DYNASTY
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See ĀL-E DĀBŪYA.
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DABUYIDS
Wilfred Madelung
the dynasty of espahbads ruling Ṭabarestān until its conquest by the Muslims in 144/761.
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DĀD (1)
Mansour Shaki
(Av. dāta- “law, right, rule, regulation, statute, command, institution, decision”), in the Zoroastrian tradition the most general term for law.
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DĀD (2)
Jean During
a vocal and instrumental gūša (motif), in reality more of a melodic type than a modal structure.
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DĀD (3)
Nassereddin Parvin
(lit., “justice”), a Tehran afternoon newspaper, 1942-61.
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DĀD NASK
Mansour Shaki
(law book), one of the three divisions of the Avesta, comprising seven nasks, subdivided into the five strictly legal (dādīg) nasks (Nikātum, Duzd-sar-nizad, Huspāram, Sakātum, and Vidēvdād) and the two disparate nasks, Čihrdād and Bagān Yašt.
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DADA ʿOMAR ROŠENĪ
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cofounder of the Ḵalwatī Sufi order. See DEDE ÖMER RUŞENĪ
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DADARSIS
Muhammad A. Dandamayev
Old Persian name derived from darš “to dare”; three men with this name are known.