Encyclopædia Iranica
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D'ARCY, JOSEPH
Kambiz Eslami
(Pers. “Mester Bārūt,” “Qūlūnel Khan,” “Qonsūl Khan”; b. Portsmouth, England, 14 March 1780, d. Lymington, England, 17 February 1848), major (later lieutenant colonel) in the British Royal Artillery who arrived in Persia in 1226/1811 with the ambassador Sir Gore Ouseley; he was one of a group of British officers and enlisted men who were to reform and equip the Persian army.
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D'ARCY, WILLIAM KNOX
Fuad Rouhani
(b. Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England, 11 October 1849, d. Stanmore, Middlesex, England, 1 May 1917), petroleum entrepreneur and founder of the oil industry in Persia and the Middle East.
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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.


