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• DASTĀN

  Jean During

  a term used in three different contexts in Persian music- melody, narrative composition, and fingering system.

• DASTĀN (1)

  Cross-Reference

  See ZĀL.

• DĀSTĀN (2)

  Cross-Reference

  story, tale, parable. See FICTION.

• DĀSTĀN-SARĀʾĪ

  William Hanaway

  (storytelling), term used for written and oral genres of fictional narrative.

• DAŠTESTĀN

  Jamšīd Ṣadāqat-Kīš

  or šahrestān, lit. "subprovince" on the Persian Gulf coast in Būšehr province, bounded on the north and east by Fārs province, on the south by the šahrestān of Daštī, and on the west by the šahrestāns of Būšehr, Tangestān, and Ganāva.

• DASTGĀH

  Jean During

  modal system in Persian music, representing a level of organization at which a certain number of melodic types (gūšas) are regrouped and ordered in relation to a dominant mode (māya).

• DASTGERD

  Philippe Gignoux

  lit. “made by hand, handiwork”; a term originally designating a royal or seigneurial estate.

• DAŠTĪ (musical mode)

  Jean During

  one of the twelve modal systems in the repertoire of traditional music (radīf); it is an āvāz, or auxiliary modal system, derived from or attached to the dastgāh Šūr.

• DAŠTĪ (subprovince)

  Jamšīd Ṣadāqat-Kīš

  šahrestān (subprovince) on the Persian Gulf in Būšehr province, corresponding approximately to the area referred to as Māndestān and Sīf Āl Moẓaffar in early sources.

• DAŠTĪ, ʿALĪ

  J. E. KNÖRZER

  (ca. 1894–1982), man of letters, journalist, and politician. Perhaps his innovative and “personal” studies of the principal Persian classical poets will prove the most enduring of his writings; they broke sharply with traditional Persian literary criticism focused on anecdotes, prosody, and explication de textes.

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• DASTJERDĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  David O. Morgan

  Il-khanid bureaucrat.

• DASTŪR

  Mansour Shaki

  in the Sasanian period dastwar had a wide range of meanings, primarily denoting “one in authority, having power”; from that time, the semantic range was increasingly widened to convey different meanings at different times.

• DASTŪR AL-AFĀŻEL FĪ LOḠĀT AL-FAŻĀʾEL

  Solomon Baevsky

  lit. "manual of the learned for learned words"; an early Persian-to-Persian dictionary (farhang-nāma), compiled in India in 1342, during the reign of Moḥammad b. Tōḡloq Shah by Ḥājeb Ḵayrāt Rafīʿ, a poet from Delhi, for his patron Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Jajnīrī.

• DASTŪR AL-KĀTEB FĪ TAʿYĪN AL-MARĀTEB

  David O. Morgan

  administrative manual written by Moḥammad Naḵjavānī (ca. 1280-after 1366), son of Faḵr-al-Dīn Hendūšāh b. Sanjar Naḵjavānī, author of Tajāreb al-salaf.

• DASTUR AL-MOLUK

  M. Ismail Marcinkowski

  a manual of administration in Persian from the end of the Safavid period.

• DASTŪR-E DABĪRĪ

  Hashem Rajabzadeh

  comprehensive manual of letter writing by Moḥammad Meyhanī, consisting of an introduction (dībāča) and two chapters (qeṣm; comp. December 1189-January 1190).

• ḎĀT-AL-SALĀSEL

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  lit., “provided with chains”; place near Obolla in southern Iraq where in 633 C.E., one of Ṭabarī’s informants, Ḵāled b. Walīd and an Arab force of about 18,000 men defeated a small Sasanian garrison led by a frontier commander named Hormoz.

• DĀTA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Old Iranian term for “law” attested both in Avestan texts (Old and Younger Av. dāta-) and in Achaemenid royal inscriptions.

• DĀTABARA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  title of a high official in the Achaemenid legal and juridical system.

• DATAMES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Iranian personal name, reflecting Old Iranian *Dātama- or *Dātāma-, either a two-stem shortened form *Dāta-m-a- from a compound name like *Dātamiθra- or an unabridged compound *Dātāma-from *Dāta-ama-“to whom force is given.”