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  • DAMIRI, MOḤAMMAD

    G. A. Russell

    b. Musā b. ʿIsā Kamāl al-Din Ebn Elyās b. ʿAbd-Allāh al-Damiri (b. Cairo, A.H. 745/A.D. 1342, d. Cairo, A.H. 808/ A.D. 1405), a tailor turned Shāfiʿi theologian, is best known for his Ḥayātal-ḥayawān (Animal Life).

  • DAMPOḴT(AK)

    Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar

    or DAMĪ, terms referring to rice cooked in a single pot.

  • DANCE

    A. Shapur Shahbazi, Robyn C. Friend

    (raqṣ). Single dancers or groups of dancers represented on pottery from prehistoric Iranian sites (e.g., Tepe Siyalk, Tepe Mūsīān) attest the antiquity of this art in Iran. According to Duris of Samos (apud Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae), the Achaemenid Persians learned to dance, just as they learned to ride horseback.

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  • DANDĀN ÖILÏQ (“ivory houses”)

    Gerd Gropp

    lit. “ivory houses”; ruined city located about 50 km north of the Domoko oasis in the eastern portion of the oasis complex of Khotan, in Chinese Turkestan.

  • DANDĀNQĀN

    C. Edmund Bosworth

    a small town of medieval Khorasan, in the Qara Qum, or sandy desert, between Marv and Saraḵs, 10 farsaḵs from the former, on which it was administratively dependent.

  • DĀNEŠ (1)

    ʿAlī-Akbar Saʿīdī Sīrjānī

    pen name of MOʿĪN-AL-WEZĀRA MĪRZĀ REŻĀ KHAN ARFAʿ (Arfaʿ-al-Dawla; ca. 1846-1937), also known as Prince Reżā Arfaʿ, diplomat and poet of the late Qajar period.

  • DĀNEŠ (2)

    Nassereddin Parvin

    lit., “knowledge”; title of seven newspa­pers and journals published in Persia and the Indian subcontinent, presented here in chronological order.

  • DĀNEŠ, AḤMAD MAḴDŪM

    Vincent Fourniau

    b. Mīr b. Yūsof ḤANAFĪ ṢEDDĪQĪ BOḴĀRĪ (1242-1314/1827-97), known as Aḥmad Kallā and Mohandes (lit., “engineer”), a historian and progressive Tajik writer of Bukhara.

  • DĀNEŠ, ḤOSAYN

    Peter J. Chelkowski

    (b. Istanbul 1870, d. Ankara 1943), a leading Turco-Persian poet, journalist, and scholar who wrote on literary, political, and social issues for many Persian newspapers.

  • DĀNEŠ, TAQĪ

    Īraj Afšār

    (b. Tabrīz, 1861, d. Tehran 24 February 1948), poet and govern­ment official.