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DAŠT-E MOḠĀN
Cross-Reference
See MOḠĀN.
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DAŠT-E NĀWOR
Gérard Fussman
lit. “plain of the lake”; a depression (average elev. 3,100 m) 60 x 15 km with a brackish lake in the center, located at 33° 41’ N and 67° 46’ E, about 60 km west of Ḡaznī.
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DAŠT-E QALʿA
Henri-Paul Francfort
lit., “plain of the fortress”; small bāzār village on an irrigation canal near the junction of the Kōkča and Āmū Darya rivers in the province of Badaḵšān, northeastern Afghanistan, the site of several earlier settlements.
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DASTA
Peter J. Chelkowski
the most common term for a ritual procession held in the Islamic lunar month of Moḥarram and the following month of Ṣafar, both periods of mourning for Imami Shiʿites. The procession commemorates the tragic death of Ḥosayn, grandson of the prophet Moḥammad and the third imam of the Shiʿites.
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DAŠTAKĪ, ʿAṬĀ-ALLĀH
Andrew J. Newman
(d. 1506, 1511, or 1520), a scholar of Hadith in Khorasan in the late Timurid and early Safavid periods.
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DAŠTAKĪ, GĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN
Andrew J. Newman
b. Ṣadr-al-Dīn Moḥammad Šīrāzī Ḥosaynī (1462-1541), scholar, philosopher, and motakallem (theologian) of the late Timurid and early Safavid period, and, for a brief interval under Shah Ṭahmāsb, one of two ṣadrs (chief clerical overseers).
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DASTĀN
Jean During
a term used in two different contexts in Persian music- melody and fingering system.
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DASTĀN (1)
Cross-Reference
See ZĀL.
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DĀSTĀN (2)
Cross-Reference
story, tale, parable. See FICTION.
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DĀSTĀN-SARĀʾĪ
William Hanaway
(storytelling), term used for written and oral genres of fictional narrative.