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  • DA AFḠĀNESTĀN TĀRĪḴ ṬŌLANA

    Cross-Reference

    See Anjoman-e Tāriḵ-e Afḡānestān.

  • 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.

  • DABESTĀN

    Cross-Reference

    (elementary school). See EDUCATION.

  • DABESTĀN JOURNAL

    Nassereddin Parvin

    (“school”), Persian monthly cultural journal published in Mašhad, 1922-27. 

  • 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.

  • DABĪR

    Aḥmad Tafażżolī, Hashem Rajabzadeh

    "secretary, scribe." i. In the pre-Islamic period. ii. In the Islamic period.

  • DABĪR-AL-MOLK FARĀHĀNĪ

    Guity Nashat

    or Mīrzā Moḥammad-Ḥosayn (1810-80), director of the private royal secretariat under Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah.

  • DABĪR-E AʿẒAM

    Cross-Reference

    See BAHRAMĪ, FARAJ-ALLĀH.

  • DABĪRE, DABĪRĪ

    Aḥmad Tafażżolī

    a term designating the “seven scripts” supposedly used in the Sasanian period.

  • DABĪRESTĀN

    Cross-Reference

    secondary school. See EDUCA­TION x. MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

  • DABĪRESTĀN-E NEẒĀM

    Cross-Reference

    military secondary school. See pending entry MILITARY.

  • DĀBŪYA DYNASTY

    Cross-Reference

    See ĀL-E DĀBŪYA.

  • DABUYIDS

    Wilfred Madelung

    the dynasty of espahbads ruling Ṭabarestān until its conquest by the Muslims in 144/761.

  • DĀD (1)

    Mansour Shaki

    (Av. dāta- “law, right, rule, regulation, statute, command, institution, decision”), in the Zoroastrian tradition the most general term for law.

  • DĀD (2)

    Jean During

    a vocal and instrumental gūša (motif), in reality more of a melodic type than a modal structure.  

  • DĀD (3)

    Nassereddin Parvin

    (lit., “justice”), a Tehran afternoon newspaper, 1942-61.

  • 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.

  • DADA ʿOMAR ROŠENĪ

    Cross-Reference

    cofounder of the Ḵalwatī Sufi order. See DEDE ÖMER RUŞENĪ

  • DADARSIS

    Muhammad A. Dandamayev

    Old Persian name derived from darš “to dare”; three men with this name are known.