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• DAQQĀQ, ABŪ ʿALĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ABŪ ʿALĪ DAQQĀQ.

• ḎARʿ

  cross-reference

  See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

• DĀR AL- ḤARB

  Hamid Algar

  “the realm of war”; lands not under Islamic rule, a juridical term for certain non-­Muslim territory, though often construed, especially by Western writers, as a geopolitical concept implying the necessity for perpetual, even if generally latent, warfare between the Muslim state and its non-Muslim neighbors.

• DĀR AL-FONŪN

  John Gurney and Negin Nabavi

  lit., “polytechnic college”; a college founded in Tehran in 1268/1851 by Mīrzā Ṭāqī Khan Amīr-e Kabīr, which marked the begin­ning of modern education in Persia.

• DĀR AL-ŠŪRĀ-YE KOBRĀ

  Cross-Reference

  See WEZĀRAT.

• DĀR AL-ŻARB

  Cross-Reference

  See ŻARRĀB-ḴĀNA.

• DĀR(- E) TANHĀ

  Ernie Haerinck

  lit., “the lonely tree”; an ar­cheological site in the district of Badr, near the village of Jabar, ca. 70 km east-southeast of Īlām, in the province of Pošt-e Kūh.

• DAR-E MEHR

  Mary Boyce

  a Zoroastrian term first recorded in the Persian Rivāyats and Parsi Gujarati writings.

• DĀRĀ

  Michael Weiskopf

  the name of a Parthian city and of a Byzan­tine garrison town of the Sasanian period.

• DĀRĀ

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀL-E BĀVAND.