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  • DĀNEŠKĀDA

    Cross-Reference

    See EDUCATION; FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN.

  • DĀNEŠKĀDA-YE AFSARĪ

    Cross-reference

    See MILITARY.

  • DĀNEŠKADA-YE EṢFAHĀN

    N. Parvin

    a monthly literary journal and the organ of a society of the same name, published in two series in Isfahan by the poet and calligrapher Mirzā ʿAbbās Khan Dehkordi Šeydā (1882-1949).

  • DĀNEŠMAND

    Tahsin Yazici

    (d. 1104), Amir Ḡāzī Taylu Gümüš tigin Aḥmad (or Moḥammad), founder of a Turkman dynasty in northern Cappadocia toward the end of the 11th century.

  • DĀNEŠMAND BAHĀDOR

    Peter Jackson

    Mongol com­mander (d. 1306).

  • DĀNEŠMAND-E ḤĀJEB

    Peter Jackson

    Muslim officer in Mongol service in the first half of the 13th century.

  • DANESTAMA

    Klaus Fischer

    a mud-brick structure on diaper masonry foundations located on the left bank of the Sorḵāb river, 34 km north of Doāb-e Mīḵzarīn on the road to Došī.

  • DĀNG

    Cross-Reference

    See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

  • DĀNĪĀL B. MOŠEH QŪMESĪ

    Amnon Netzer

    Persian Jewish scholar and exegete of the Karaite sect, the members of which rejected rabbinical writings later than the Bible itself.

  • DĀNĪĀL-E NABĪ

    Amnon Netzer, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Parvīz Varjāvand, Amnon Netzer

    Dānīāl is not mentioned in the Koran but is venerated as a prophet in Muslim tradition. Eschatological statements and the prophecy recounted in Daniel 12:12 (supposedly concerning the year 1335) have been interpreted by Jews as referring to the coming of the Messiah.

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