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• DĀRA, MIRZĀ

  Cross-Reference

  See ʿABDALLĀH MĪRZĀ DĀRĀ.

• DĀRĀ ŠOKŌH

  Annemarie Schimmel

  (b. near Ajmer, 20 March 1615, d. Delhi, 12 August 1659), first son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahān and his wife Momtāz Maḥall, religious thinker, mystic, poet, and author of a number of works in Persian.

• DĀRĀ(B) (1)

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  or DĀRĀB, the name of two kings of the legendary Kayanid dynasty.

• DĀRĀB (2)

  Massoud Kheirabadi, Dietrich Huff, Georgina Herrmann

  the name Dārāb refers both to a šahrestān (subprovince) of Fārs province and to its chief city.

• DĀRĀB-NĀMA

  William L. Hanaway

  prose romance of the 12th century, by Abū Ṭāher Moḥammad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ṭārsūsī (or Ṭarṭūsī), in which the adventures of the legendary Kayanid king Dārāb, son of Bahman (also called Ardašīr) and Homāy, variously identified as the daughter of king Sām Čāraš of Egypt or of Ardašīr (=Bahman), are recounted.

• DĀRĀBGERD

  Cross-Reference

  See Dārā(b) II.

• DĀRĀBĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See CITRUS FRUITS.

• DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED JAʿFAR

  Andrew J. Newman

  b. Abī Esḥāq Mūsawī Borūjerdī Kašfī (b. Eṣṭahbānāt in Fārs, 1775, d. Borūjerd 1851), religious scholar, nephew of the Aḵbārī Yūsuf b. Aḥmad Baḥrānī and father of Sayyed Yaḥyā Waḥīd Dārābī.

• DĀRĀBĪ SAYYED YAḤYĀ

  Moojan Momen

  (b. Yazd, ca. 1811, d. Neyrīz, 1850), Babi leader usually known as Waḥīd (unique), a title given him by the Bāb; the eldest son of Sayyed Jaʿfar Kašfī Eṣṭah-bānātī, he received a Muslim religious education and, like his father, was associated with the Qajar court.

• DARABPAHLAN, DASTUR

  Kaikhusroo M. JamaspAsa

  Zoroastrian priest and author (b. Navsari, Gujarat, 1668, d. Navsari, 1 September 1734), eldest son of Pahlan Fredoon, who was accorded the title “dastur” (high priest) and the privilege of occupying the second chair in the Zoroastrian assembly of the small port of Navsari in 1670 or perhaps earlier.