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• DATIS

  Rüdiger Schmitt

  Iranian personal name.

• DAULIER DESLANDES

  ANNE KROELL

  (b. Montoire-sur-le-Loir, 1621, d. Paris, 23 October 1715), author of Les Beautez de la Perse ..., a brief but valuable description of Safavid Persia in the years 1075-76/1664-65.

• DAURISES

  R. Schmitt

  name of a Persian general during the Ionian revolt, a son-in-law of Darius I (522-486 B.C.E.).

• DAVĀL-PĀ(Y)

  Hūšang Aʿlam

  or dovāl-pā, an imaginary evil anthropoid creature characterized by flexible legs (pā) resembling leather straps, which he uses as tentacles to grip and enslave human beings, who then have to carry him on their shoulders or backs and labor for him until they die of fatigue.

• DAVALLU

  Cross-Reference

  See QAJAR TRIBES.

• DAVĀN

  Hamid Mahamedi

  village located 12 km northeast of Kāzerūn in Fārs; a distinctive dialect is spoken there. Arable land is very limited and located mostly in the foothills; dry farming is the prevailing form of agriculture. Products include barley, wheat, and fruits—grapes, figs, pomegranates, and pears.

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• DAVĀNĪ, JALĀL-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD

  Andrew J. Newman

  b. Asʿad Kāzerūnī Ṣeddīqī (b. Davān, q.v., near Kāzerūn in Fārs, 1426-27, d. 1502), often referred to as ʿAllāma Davānī, leading theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet of late 15th-century Persia.

• DĀVAR

  Cross-Reference

  See DĀTABARA.

• DĀVAR, ʿALĪ-AKBAR

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  (b. Tehran, 1885, d. Tehran, 10 February 1937), journalist, politician, statesman, and founder of the modern Persian judicial system, as well as of several state enterprises in the time of Reżā Shah.

• DĀVARĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ, Mīrzā Moḥammad

  ʿAbd-al-Wahhāb Nūrānī Weṣāl

  (b. Shiraz 1822-23, d. Shiraz, 1866), poet, calligrapher, and painter of some renown in Qajar Persia and a contemporary of Moḥammad Shah and Nāṣer-al-Dīn Shah.