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• DARBĀR -E AʿẒAM

  Guity Nashat

  lit., “the great court”; a council of ministers established in October 1872 as one of several experiments undertaken in the reign of Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah (1848-96) to reorganize and rationalize the Persian administration on the model of Western cabinet government.

• DĀRČĪNĪ

  Hūšang Aʿlam

  lit., “Chinese tree/wood."

• D'ARCY, JOSEPH

  Kambiz Eslami

  (Pers. “Mester Bārūt,” “Qūlūnel Khan,” “Qonsūl Khan”; b. Portsmouth, England, 14 March 1780, d. Lymington, England, 17 February 1848), major (later lieutenant colonel) in the British Royal Artillery who arrived in Persia in 1226/1811 with the ambassador Sir Gore Ouseley; he was one of a group of British officers and enlisted men who were to reform and equip the Persian army.

• D'ARCY, WILLIAM KNOX

  Fuad Rouhani

  (b. Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England, 11 October 1849, d. Stanmore, Middlesex, England, 1 May 1917), petroleum entrepreneur and founder of the oil industry in Persia and the Middle East.

• DARD, ḴᵛĀJA MĪR

  Annemarie Schimmel

  (b. Delhi, 13 September 1721; d. 11 January 1785), poet and author of prose works on mystical theology.

• DARDESTĀN

  NIGEL J. R. ALLAN, D. I. EDEL’MAN

  the region where Dardic languages are spoken.

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• DĀREMĪ, ABŪ SAʿĪD ʿOṮMĀN

  Josef van Ess

  b. Saʿīd b. Ḵāled SEJESTĀNĪ, Persian traditionist and jurist (b. ca. 816, d. February 894).

• DARGĀHĪ, MOḤAMMAD

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  (b. Zanjān, 1899, d. Tehran, 1952), first chief of the state police under Reżā Shah.

• DARGĀHQOLĪ KHAN ḎU’L-QADR

  M. Saleem Akhtar

  also known as Moʿtaman-al-Dawla Moʿtaman-al-Molk Sālār-Jang Ḵān-e Dawrān Nawwāb (b. Sangamnēr, Deccan, 1710, d. Awrangābād, 22 October 1766), Persian official at Hyderabad and Awrangābād, best known for his description of Delhi.

• DARGAZĪNĪ

  C. Edmund Bosworth

  nesba (attributive name) for Dargazīn (or Darjazīn, q.v.), borne by several viziers of the Great Saljuqs in the 12th century.