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DĀʿĪ-E ṢAḠĪR
Cross-Reference
See ḤASAN b. QĀSEM ʿALAWĪ.
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DĀITYĀ, VAŊHVĪ
Gherardo Gnoli
the name of a river connected with the religious law, frequently identified in scholarly literature with the Oxus or with rivers of the northeastern region.
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DAIUKKU
Cross-Reference
See DEIOCES.
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DAIVA
Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean Kelllens
Old Iranian noun (Av. daēuua-, OPers. daiva-) corresponding to the title devá- of the Indian gods and thus reflecting the Indo-European heritage (*deiu̯ó-).
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DAIVADANA
Gherardo Gnoli
lit., "temple of the daivas," Old Persian term that appears in the “daiva inscription” of Xerxes at Persepolis.
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DAJJĀL
Hamid Algar
lit. "the great deceiver"; in Islamic tradition the maleficent figure gifted with supernatural powers whose advent and brief, though quasi-universal, rule will be among the signs heralding the approach of the resurrection.
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ḎAKAʾ-AL-MOLK
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DAKANĪ, REŻĀ ʿALĪŠĀH
Javad Nurbakhsh
also known as Shah ʿAlī-Reżā (1683-1799), leader (qoṭb, lit., “pole”) in the years 1741-99 of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Hyderabad (Deccan), India.
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DAKANĪ, SAYYED MĪR ʿABD AL ḤAMĪD MAʿṢŪM ʿALISĀH
Hamid Algar
(ca. 1738-97), the “renewer” (mojadded) of the Neʿmat-Allāhī Sufi order in Persia and thus the initiatory ancestor of all present-day Neʿmat-Allāhīs.
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DAḴĪL
Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Beyhaqī
lit. “interceder”; a piece of rag or cord or a lock fastened (daḵīl bastan) on a sacred place or object, for example, the railing around a saint’s tomb or grave or a public fountain (saqqā-ḵāna), the branch of a tree considered sacred, or another plant, in order to obtain a desired benefit.