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DABĪRESTĀN
Cross-Reference
secondary school. See EDUCATION x. MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
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DABĪRESTĀN-E NEẒĀM
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military secondary school. See pending entry MILITARY.
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DĀBŪYA DYNASTY
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See ĀL-E DĀBŪYA.
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DABUYIDS
Wilfred Madelung
the dynasty of espahbads ruling Ṭabarestān until its conquest by the Muslims in 144/761.
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DĀD (1)
Mansour Shaki
(Av. dāta- “law, right, rule, regulation, statute, command, institution, decision”), in the Zoroastrian tradition the most general term for law.
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DĀD (2)
Jean During
a vocal and instrumental gūša (motif), in reality more of a melodic type than a modal structure.
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DĀD (3)
Nassereddin Parvin
(lit., “justice”), a Tehran afternoon newspaper, 1942-61.
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DĀD NASK
Mansour Shaki
(law book), one of the three divisions of the Avesta, comprising seven nasks, subdivided into the five strictly legal (dādīg) nasks (Nikātum, Duzd-sar-nizad, Huspāram, Sakātum, and Vidēvdād) and the two disparate nasks, Čihrdād and Bagān Yašt.
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DADA ʿOMAR ROŠENĪ
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cofounder of the Ḵalwatī Sufi order. See DEDE ÖMER RUŞENĪ
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DADARSIS
Muhammad A. Dandamayev
Old Persian name derived from darš “to dare”; three men with this name are known.