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• DAŠT-E MOḠĀN

  Cross-Reference

  See MOḠĀN.

• DAŠT-E NĀWOR

  Gérard Fussman

  lit. “plain of the lake”; a depression (average elev. 3,100 m) 60 x 15 km with a brackish lake in the center, located at 33° 41’ N and 67° 46’ E, about 60 km west of Ḡaznī.

• DAŠT-E QALʿA

  Henri-Paul Francfort

  lit., “plain of the fortress”; small bāzār village on an irrigation canal near the junction of the Kōkča and Āmū Darya rivers in the province of Badaḵšān, northeastern Afghanistan, the site of several earlier settlements.

• DASTA

  Peter J. Chelkowski

  the most common term for a ritual procession held in the Islamic lunar month of Moḥarram and the following month of Ṣafar, both periods of mourning for Imami Shiʿites. The procession commemorates the tragic death of Ḥosayn, grandson of the prophet Moḥammad and the third imam of the Shiʿites.

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• DAŠTAKĪ, ʿAṬĀ-ALLĀH

  Andrew J. Newman

  (d. 1506, 1511, or 1520), a scholar of Hadith in Khorasan in the late Timurid and early Safavid periods.

• DAŠTAKĪ, GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN

  Andrew J. Newman

  b. Ṣadr-al-Dīn Moḥammad Šīrāzī Ḥosaynī (1462-1541), scholar, philosopher, and motakallem (theologian) of the late Timurid and early Safavid period, and, for a brief interval under Shah Ṭahmāsb, one of two ṣadrs (chief clerical overseers).

• DASTĀN

  Jean During

  a term used in two different contexts in Persian music- melody 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.