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DESMAISONS, JEAN-JACQUES-PIERRE
CATHÉRINE POUJOL
or Petr Ivanovich Demezon (b. Chambéry, in the kingdom of Sardinia, 1807, d. Paris, 1873) diplomat and compiler of an important Persian-French dictionary.
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DEUTSCHES ARCHÄOLOGISCHES INSTITUT
Wolfram Kleiss
or D.A.I., research institution administered by the German foreign ministry, with a number of branches, including the Abteilung Teheran in Persia.
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DĒV
Cross-Reference
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DEVECSERI, Gábor
ANDRÁS BODROGLIGETI
(1917-1971), Hungarian poet, scholar, and translator.
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DEVIL
Cross-Reference
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DĒW
A. V. Williams
lit. "demon" in the Pahlavi books.
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DĒWĀŠTĪČ
Boris Marshak
ruler of Sogdia (706?-22), referred to as “prince of Panč” (Panjīkant) and as “king of Sogdia, ruler of Samarkand” in the portion of his archives discovered at the castle on Mount Mug (Mōḡ), east of Samarkand, on the upper course of the Zarafšān river.
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DEYHĪM
Cross-Reference
See CROWN.
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DEYLAM, BANDAR-E
Sayyed ʿAlī Āl-e Dāwūd
a port on the Persian Gulf (30° 3’ N, 50° 9’ E) in the province of Būšehr at an elevation a little above 1 m.
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DEYLAM, JOHN OF
Nicholas Sims-Williams
or Yoḥannān Daylomāyā (d. 738), Eastern Syrian saint and founder of monasteries in Fārs.
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DEYLAMĀN (District)
Ezat O. Negahban
or Daylamān, district and town in Gīlān.
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DEYLAMĀN (Melody)
Jean During
melody (gūša) incorporated into the radīf of Āvāz-e Daštī by Abu’l-Ḥasan Ṣabā (1957), who borrowed it from the regional repertoire of northern Persia.
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DEYLAMĪ, ʿABD-AL-RAŠĪD
Cross-Reference
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DEYLAMĪ, ABŪ MOḤAMMAD ḤASAN
Etan Kohlberg
b. Abi’l-Ḥasan (b.) Moḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd-Allāh (or Moḥammad), Shiʿite author and traditionist.
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DEYLAMĪ, ABUʾL-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
Gerhard BÖWERING
b. Moḥammad (fl. 10th century), an obscure yet important author on the early Persian Sufism prevalent in Fārs.
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DEYLAMĪ, ABU’L-FATḤ NĀṢER
Wilferd Madelung
b. Ḥosayn b. Moḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. Moḥammad b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Zayd b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb, Zaydī imam with the title Nāṣer le-Dīn Allāh (d. 1052-53).
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DEYLAMĪ, ŠAMS-AL-DĪN ABŪ ṮĀBET MOḤAMMAD
Gerhard Böwering
b. ʿAbd-al-Malek ṬŪSĪ (d. ca. 1197), original though obscure Sufi author of the 12th century.
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DEYLAMITES
Wolfgang Felix & Wilferd Madelung
people inhabiting a shifting region in northern Persia and adjacent territories, including the Deylamān uplands.
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DEYM
Cross-Reference
See ĀBYĀRĪ; AGRICULTURE In Iran; BĀRĀN; FARMING.
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DEZ
Cross-Reference
or DEŽ, (fortress, castle; Mid. Pers. diz; OPers. didā- “wall, fortress”; Av. daēz-; Yidgha lizo“fort”). See BĀRŪ; CASTLES.