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DADESTAN
Mansour Shaki
(dād “law,” with the formative suffix -stān), a Middle Persian term used with denotations and connotations that vary with the legal, religious, philosophical, and social context.
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DĀDESTĀN Ī DĒNĪG
Mansour Shaki
(Religious judgements), Pahlavi work by Manūščihr, high priest of the Persian Zoroastrian community in the 9th century.
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DADESTAN Ī MENOG Ī XRAD
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
(Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom), a Zoroastrian Pahlavi book in sixty-three chapters (a preamble and sixty-two questions and answers).
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DĀDGĀH "COURT"
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court of law. See JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS v. JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
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DĀDGĀH "TEMPLE FIRE"
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See ĀTAŠ.
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DĀDGAR, ḤOSAYN
Bāqer ʿĀqelī
ʿAdl-al-Molk (b. Tehran ca. 1299/1881, d. 1349 Š./1970), at various times president of the Persian Majles, cabinet minister, and senator under the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties.
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DĀDGOSTARĪ, WEZĀRAT-E
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DĀDĪŠOʿ
Erica C. D. Hunter
(Syr. “beloved of Jesus”; Payne Smith, col. 824, s.v.; Pers. “given by Jesus”), catholicus of the Sasanian “Nestorian” church in 420/21-455/56.
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DĀDIŠOʿ
Florence Jullien
(d. ca. 604), head of the Great monastery on Mount Izla in Ṭur ʿAbdin, north of Nisibis. He completed the monastic reform (6th-7th century) with his own rules, reinforcing the cenobitic way of life.
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DADISOʿ QATRAYA
Nicholas Sims-Williams
(late 7th century), Nestorian author of ascetic literature in Syriac. Presumably a native of Qaṭar, as his surname suggests, he lived for a time at the monastery of Rabban Šābūr, near Šostar in Ḵūzestān. His writings included commentaries on the Paradise of the Fathers and on the 26 “discourses” of Abbā Isaiah; fragments of the latter are found in Sogdian translation.
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