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DAYEAKUTʿIWN
Robert G. Bedrosian
a form of child rearing practiced in Armenia and other parts of the Caucasus.
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DĀYERAT AL-MAʿĀREF-E FĀRSĪ
Dāryūš Āšūrī
the first general encyclopedia in Persian compiled along modern lines.
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DAYLAMITES
Cross-Reference
people inhabiting a shifting region in northern Persia and adjacent territories, including the Deylamān uplands. See DEYLAMITES; BUYIDS.
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DAYR
QAMAR ĀRYĀN
monastery; in early Islamic Arabic and Persian literature usually a building in which Christian monks (rāheb) lived and worshiped.
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DAYR AL-ʿĀQŪL
C. Edmund Bosworth
lit., “the monastery at the bend in the river”; a medieval town in Iraq situated on the Tigris 15 farsangs (= 80 km) southeast of Baghdad.
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DAYR-E GAČĪN
Mehrdad Shokoohy
lit., “gypsum hospice”; Sasanian caravansary situated in the desert halfway between Ray and Qom, on the ancient route from Ray to Isfahan. It is recorded in most early Muslim geographies. Over time, it underwent major reconstruction at least twice.
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DAYSAM
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Ebrāhīm KORDĪ, ABŪ SĀLEM, Kurdish commander who ruled sporadically in Azerbaijan between 938 and 955 after the period of Sajid domination there.
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DA’TID BAHRANA
Eden Naby
(with the Persian title Āyanda-ye rowšan “Bright future”), Assyrian bilingual periodical published in Tehran in 1951.
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DE BRUIN, CORNELIS
Willem Floor
or de Bruyn, also known as Corneille Le Brun or Le Bruyn (b. The Hague 1652, d. Utrecht 1726 or 1727), Dutch painter and author of two accounts of his travels in Persia and other eastern lands.
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DE GOEJE, MICHAIL JAN
A. J. M. Vrolijk
(b. Dronrijp, Friesland, 18 August 1836, d. Leiden, 17 May 1909), Dutch orientalist and chief editor of Ṭabari’s world history, Taʾriḵ al-rosol wa’l-moluk.