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• DADESTAN

  Mansour Shaki

  (dād “law,” with the formative suffix -stān), a Middle Persian term used with denota­tions and connotations that vary with the legal, reli­gious, philosophical, and social context.

• DĀDESTĀN Ī DĒNĪG

  Mansour Shaki

  (Religious judgements), Pahlavi work by Manūščihr, high priest of the Persian Zoroastrian community in the 9th century.

• DADESTAN Ī MENOG Ī XRAD

  Aḥmad Tafażżolī

  (Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom), a Zoroastrian Pahlavi book in sixty-three chapters (a preamble and sixty-two ques­tions and answers).

• DĀDGĀH "COURT"

  Cross-Reference

  court of law. See JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS v. JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN THE 20TH CENTURY.

• DĀDGĀH "TEMPLE FIRE"

  Cross-Reference

  See ĀTAŠ.

• DĀDGAR, ḤOSAYN

  Bāqer ʿĀqelī

  ʿAdl-al-Molk (b. Tehran ca. 1299/1881, d. 1349 Š./1970), at various times president of the Persian Majles, cabi­net minister, and senator under the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasties.

• DĀDGOSTARĪ, WEZĀRAT-E

  Cross-Reference

  See JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS.

• DĀDĪŠOʿ

  Erica C. D. Hunter

  (Syr. “beloved of Jesus”; Payne Smith, col. 824, s.v.; Pers. “given by Jesus”), catholicus of the Sasanian “Nestorian” church in 420/21-455/56.

• DADISOʿ QATRAYA

  Nicholas Sims-Williams

  (late 7th century), Nestorian author of ascetic literature in Syriac.

• DĀḎMEHR b. FARROḴĀN

  Cross-Reference

  espahbad of Ṭabarestān. See Dabuyids.