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• DASTJERDĀNĪ, JAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  David O. Morgan

  Il-khanid bureaucrat.

• DASTŪR

  Mansour Shaki

  in the Sasanian period dastwar had a wide range of meanings, primarily denoting “one in authority, having power”; from that time, the semantic range was increasingly widened to convey different meanings at different times.

• DASTŪR AL-AFĀŻEL FĪ LOḠĀT AL-FAŻĀʾEL

  Solomon Baevsky

  lit. "manual of the learned for learned words"; an early Persian-to-Persian dictionary (farhang-nāma), compiled in India in 1342, during the reign of Moḥammad b. Tōḡloq Shah by Ḥājeb Ḵayrāt Rafīʿ, a poet from Delhi, for his patron Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī Jajnīrī.

• DASTŪR AL-KĀTEB FĪ TAʿYĪN AL-MARĀTEB

  David O. Morgan

  administrative manual written by Moḥammad Naḵjavānī (ca. 1280-after 1366), son of Faḵr-al-Dīn Hendūšāh b. Sanjar Naḵjavānī, author of Tajāreb al-salaf.

• DASTUR AL-MOLUK

  M. Ismail Marcinkowski

  a manual of administration in Persian from the end of the Safavid period.

• DASTŪR-E DABĪRĪ

  Hashem Rajabzadeh

  comprehensive manual of letter writing by Moḥammad Meyhanī, consisting of an introduction (dībāča) and two chapters (qeṣm; comp. December 1189-January 1190).

• ḎĀT-AL-SALĀSEL

  A. Shapur Shahbazi

  lit., “provided with chains”; place near Obolla in southern Iraq where in 633 C.E., one of Ṭabarī’s informants, Ḵāled b. Walīd and an Arab force of about 18,000 men defeated a small Sasanian garrison led by a frontier commander named Hormoz.

• DĀTA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Old Iranian term for “law” attested both in Avestan texts (Old and Younger Av. dāta-) and in Achaemenid royal inscriptions.

• DĀTABARA

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  title of a high official in the Achaemenid legal and juridical system.

• DATAMES

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Iranian personal name, reflecting Old Iranian *Dātama- or *Dātāma-, either a two-stem shortened form *Dāta-m-a- from a compound name like *Dātamiθra- or an unabridged compound *Dātāma-from *Dāta-ama-“to whom force is given.”