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DEHESTĀN
C. Edmund Bosworth
(in modern Persian administrative usage a rural district consisting of a number of villages), the name of a region in medieval Gorgān and a town in Bādḡīs and another in Kermān.
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DEHESTĀNĪ , AʿAZZ-AL-MOLKNEẒĀM-AL-DĪN ABU’L-MAḤĀSEN ʿABD-AL-JALĪL
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. ʿAlī, twice vizier to the Saljuq sultan Barkīāroq (1094-1105).
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DEHESTĀNĪ, ḤOSAYN
Moḥammad Dabīrsīāqī
b. Asʿad b. Ḥosayn Moʾayyadī, Persian translator of the Arabic work al-Faraj baʿd al-šedda by Abū ʿAlī Moḥassen (939-94), a collection of poems, anecdotes, sayings, and didactic remarks arranged in thirteen chapters on the general theme of joy following hardship.
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DEHḴODĀ, MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ-AKBAR QAZVĪNĪ
ʿA.-A. SAʿĪDĪ SĪRJĀNĪ
(ca. 1879–1956), scholar, poet, and social critic. In all his writing Dehḵodā was a perfectionist and a meticulous craftsman. He was a nationalist, outspoken in his convictions, indifferent to the wrath of powerful men, and a firm believer in Persian culture.
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DEHḴᵛĀRAQĀN
Cross-Reference
See ĀẔARŠAHR.
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DEHLAVĪ, ŠĀH WALĪ-ALLĀH QOṬB-AL-DĪN AḤMAD ABU’L-FAYYĀŻ
Marcia K. Hermansen
(1703-62), leading Muslim intellectual of India and writer on a wide range of Islamic topics in Arabic and Persian; more than thirty-five of his works are extant.
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DEHLĪ
Cross-Reference
See DELHI SULTANATE.
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DEHLORĀN
Frank Hole
(Deh Lorān), the name of a šahrestān (subprovince) in Īlām province in southwestern Persia, and of the main town.
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DEHQĀN
Aḥmad Tafażżolī
arabicized form of Syriac dhgnʾ, borrowed from Pahlavi dehgān (older form dahīgān).
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DEIOCES
Rüdiger Schmitt
(Gk. Dēïókēs), name of a Median king.